Molecular probes, chemosensors, and nanosensors for optical detection of biorelevant molecules and ions in aqueous media and biofluids

J Krämer, R Kang, LM Grimm, L De Cola… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Synthetic molecular probes, chemosensors, and nanosensors used in combination with
innovative assay protocols hold great potential for the development of robust, low-cost, and …

Reactivity of covalent fragments and their role in fragment based drug discovery

K McAulay, A Bilsland, M Bon - Pharmaceuticals, 2022 - mdpi.com
Fragment based drug discovery has long been used for the identification of new ligands and
interest in targeted covalent inhibitors has continued to grow in recent years, with high …

Ultra-rapid Electrophilic Cysteine Arylation

BM Lipka, DS Honeycutt, GM Bassett… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Rapid bond-forming reactions are crucial for efficient bioconjugation. We describe a simple
and practical strategy for facilitating ultra-rapid electrophilic cysteine arylation. Using a …

Improved sensitivity and selectivity of glutathione detection through target-driven electron donor generation in photoelectrochemical electrodes

T Wang, Z Wang, J Hao, J Zhao, J Guo, Z Gao… - Analytical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Glutathione (GSH) plays a vital role in many physiological processes, and its abnormal
levels have been found to be associated with several diseases. In contrast to traditional …

Difluorocarbene enables to access 2-fluoroindoles from ortho-vinylanilines

J Su, X Hu, H Huang, Y Guo, Q Song - Nature Communications, 2021 - nature.com
Fluoroindoles as an important structural scaffold are widely existing in many bioactive or
therapeutic agents. Despite their potential usefulness, efficient constructions of 2 …

From carbodiimides to carbon dioxide: quantification of the electrophilic reactivities of heteroallenes

Z Li, RJ Mayer, AR Ofial, H Mayr - Journal of the American …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Kinetics of the reactions of isocyanates, isothiocyanates, carbodiimides, carbon disulfide,
and carbon dioxide with carbanions or enamines (reference nucleophiles) have been …

Activatable NIR-II ratiometric fluorescence nanoprobe for in vivo real-time dynamic imaging of GSH and its-associated diseases

S Bi, X Wen, G Sun, S Zeng - Nano Today, 2023 - Elsevier
Glutathione (GSH) as an important endogenous antioxidant plays key role in maintaining the
intracellular redox homeostasis and the imbalance of GSH level in cells is highly implicated …

Nucleophilicity Prediction via Multivariate Linear Regression Analysis

M Orlandi, M Escudero-Casao… - The Journal of organic …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The concept of nucleophilicity is at the basis of most transformations in chemistry.
Understanding and predicting the relative reactivity of different nucleophiles is therefore of …

Electrophilic reactivities of cyclic enones and α, β-unsaturated lactones

RJ Mayer, PWA Allihn, N Hampel, P Mayer… - Chemical …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The reactivities of cyclic enones and α, β-unsaturated lactones were characterized by
following the kinetics of their reactions with colored carbon-centered reference nucleophiles …

On the route to quantitative detection and real-time monitoring of glutathione in living cells by reversible fluorescent probes

M Tian, Y Liu, FL Jiang - Analytical Chemistry, 2020 - ACS Publications
In the last few decades, growing numbers of fluorescent probes have been developed to
detect intracellular GSH. However, the majority of probes for GSH were irreversible without …