Phenoxazine

Chemical properties

grey to green-grey fine crystalline powder

The Uses of Phenoxazine

Phenoxazine is a tricyclic 2′deoxycytidine analog that has been used to improve stacking interactions between heterocycles of oligonucleotide/RNA hybrids and to enhance cellular uptake.

Definition

ChEBI: 10H-phenoxazine is a member of the class of phenoxazines that is morpholine which is ortho-fused to two benzene rings at positions 2-3 and 5-6. It has a role as a ferroptosis inhibitor and a radical scavenger.

General Description

Phenoxazine dyes, including several Nile blue analogs, are known to localize selectively in animal tumors.

Purification Methods

Crystallise phenoxazine from EtOH and sublime it in vacuo. If too impure then extract it in a Soxhlet extractor using toluene. Evaporate the solvent and dissolve the residue (ca 100g) in *C6H6 (1L), CARCINOGEN (use an efficient fume cupboard) and chromatograph it through an Al2O3 column (50 x 450 mm) using *C6H6. The eluent (ca 3L) is evaporated to ca 150mL and cooled when ca 103g of phenoxazine m 149-153o is obtained. Sublimation yields platelets m 158-159o. It forms a green picrate m 141.5-142o. [Gilman & Moore J Am Chem Soc 79 3485 1957, Müller et al. J Org Chem 24 37 1959, Beilstein 27 I 223, 27 III/IV 1209.]