Журнал "Макрогетероциклы"

Kelechi A. Lebechi, Bokolombe P. Ngoy, John Mack^@ and Tebello Nyokong

Institute for Nanotechnology Innovation, Department of Chemistry, Rhodes University, 6140 Makhanda, South Africa

^@Corresponding author E-mail: j.mack@ru.ac.za

This article was submitted to a special issue dedicated to Prof. Dieter Wöhrle’s 80^th Birthday

DOI: 10.6060/mhc190662m

Macroheterocycles 2019 12(3) 292-299

A 2,6-dibrominated BODIPY core dye with a meso-pyrenyl group has been investigated for use as a photosensitizer dye in photodynamic antimicrobial chemotherapy in the context of both gram-positive (Staphylococcus aureus) and gram-negative (Escherichia coli) bacteria, along with a π-extended 3,5-di-4-carboxystyrylBODIPY dye. The dyes are found to be effective for the treatment of S. aureus, but not in the case of E. coli.