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SUBMITTER: Marks IS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3622500 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Marks Isaac S IS Kang Jun Sung JS Jones Brady T BT Landmark Kevin J KJ Cleland Andrew J AJ Taton T Andrew TA
Bioconjugate chemistry 20110602 7
1,3-Dipolar [3 + 2] cycloaddition between azides and alkynes--an archetypal "click" chemistry--has been used increasingly for the functionalization of nucleic acids. Copper(I)-catalyzed 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reactions between alkyne-tagged DNA molecules and azides work well, but they require optimization of multiple reagents, and Cu ions are known to mediate DNA cleavage. For many applications, it would be preferable to eliminate the Cu(I) catalyst from these reactions. Here, we describe the ...[more]