Photocatalytic methods for amino acid modification

TA King, JM Kandemir, SJ Walsh… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Amino acid modification plays an important role across several fields, including synthetic
organic chemistry, materials science, targeted drug delivery and the probing of biological …

Preparation of biomolecule-polymer conjugates by grafting-from using ATRP, RAFT, or ROMP

MS Messina, KMM Messina, A Bhattacharya… - Progress in polymer …, 2020 - Elsevier
Biomolecule-polymer conjugates are constructs that take advantage of the functional or
otherwise beneficial traits inherent to biomolecules and combine them with synthetic …

Site-selective arylation of carboxamides from unprotected peptides

W Li, Y Chen, Y Chen, S Xia, W Chang… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The amidated peptides are an important class of biologically active compounds due to their
unique biological properties and wide applications as potential peptide drugs and …

Nonenzymatic Stereoselective S-Glycosylation of Polypeptides and Proteins

LQ Wan, X Zhang, Y Zou, R Shi, JG Cao… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Here we report a nonenzymatic glycosylation reaction that builds axial S-glycosidic bonds
under biorelevant conditions. This strategy is enabled by the design and use of allyl glycosyl …

The chemistry of heterocycles in the 21st century

VN Charushin, EV Verbitskiy, ON Chupakhin… - Uspekhi Khimii, 2024 - mathnet.ru
The chemistry of heterocyclic compounds has traditionally been and remains a bright area of
chemical science in Russia. This is due to the fact that many heterocycles find the widest …

Rhodaelectro-catalyzed access to chromones via formyl C–H activation towards peptide electro-labeling

M Stangier, AM Messinis, JCA Oliveira, H Yu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Chromones represent a privileged scaffold in medicinal chemistry and are an omnipresent
structural motif in natural products. Chemically encoded non-natural peptidomimetics feature …

Chemodivergent manganese-catalyzed C–H activation: modular synthesis of fluorogenic probes

N Kaplaneris, J Son, L Mendive-Tapia, A Kopp… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Bioorthogonal late-stage diversification of amino acids and peptides bears enormous
potential for drug discovery and molecular imaging. Despite major accomplishments, these …

Peptide macrocyclization by transition metal catalysis

DG Rivera, GM Ojeda-Carralero, L Reguera… - Chemical Society …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Peptide macrocyclization has traditionally relied on lactam, lactone and disulfide bond-
forming reactions that aim at introducing conformational constraints into small peptide …

Site-selective modification of peptide backbones

A Boto, CC González, D Hernández… - Organic Chemistry …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The site-selective modification of peptide backbones allows an outstanding fine-tuning of
peptide conformation, folding ability, and physico-chemical and biological properties …

Organometallic Oxidative Addition Complexes for S-Arylation of Free Cysteines

HR Montgomery, AM Spokoyny… - Bioconjugate …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Development of bioconjugation strategies to efficiently modify biomolecules is of key
importance for fundamental and translational scientific studies. Cysteine S-arylation is an …