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SUBMITTER: Taylor MT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3230318 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Taylor Michael T MT Blackman Melissa L ML Dmitrenko Olga O Fox Joseph M JM
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20110606 25
Computation was used to design a trans-cyclooctene derivative that displays enhanced reactivity in the tetrazine-trans-cycloctene ligation. The optimized derivative is an (E)-bicyclo[6.1.0]non-4-ene with a cis-ring fusion, in which the eight-membered ring is forced to adopt a highly strained 'half-chair' conformation. Toward 3,6-dipyridyl-s-tetrazine in MeOH at 25 °C, the strained derivative is 19 and 27 times more reactive than the parent trans-cyclooctene and 4E-cyclooct-4-enol, respectively. ...[more]