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SUBMITTER: Jewett JC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2840677 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Jewett John C JC Sletten Ellen M EM Bertozzi Carolyn R CR
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20100301 11
Bioorthogonal chemical reactions, those that do not interact or interfere with biology, have allowed for exploration of numerous biological processes that were previously difficult to study. The reaction of azides with strained alkynes, such as cyclooctynes, readily forms a triazole product without the need for a toxic catalyst. Here we describe a biarylazacyclooctynone (BARAC) that has exceptional reaction kinetics and whose synthesis is designed to be both modular and scalable. We employed BAR ...[more]