Bioorthogonal chemistry

SL Scinto, DA Bilodeau, R Hincapie, W Lee… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Bioorthogonal chemistry represents a class of high-yielding chemical reactions that proceed
rapidly and selectively in biological environments without side reactions towards …

Inverse electron demand Diels–Alder reactions in chemical biology

BL Oliveira, Z Guo, GJL Bernardes - Chemical Society Reviews, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
The emerging inverse electron demand Diels–Alder (IEDDA) reaction stands out from other
bioorthogonal reactions by virtue of its unmatchable kinetics, excellent orthogonality and …

The future of bioorthogonal chemistry

NK Devaraj - ACS central science, 2018 - ACS Publications
Bioorthogonal reactions have found widespread use in applications ranging from glycan
engineering to in vivo imaging. Researchers have devised numerous reactions that can be …

Unleashing the power of bond cleavage chemistry in living systems

J Wang, X Wang, X Fan, PR Chen - ACS Central Science, 2021 - ACS Publications
Bioorthogonal cleavage chemistry has been rapidly emerging as a powerful tool for
manipulation and gain-of-function studies of biomolecules in living systems. While the initial …

Click and release: bioorthogonal approaches to “on-demand” activation of prodrugs

X Ji, Z Pan, B Yu, LK De La Cruz, Y Zheng… - Chemical Society …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Prodrug approaches represent an excellent solution to certain pharmaceutical issues
commonly encountered in the drug discovery and development process. Along this line, the …

Recent advances in self-immolative linkers and their applications in polymeric reporting systems

AG Gavriel, MR Sambrook, AT Russell, W Hayes - Polymer Chemistry, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Interest in self-immolative chemistry has grown over the past decade with more research
groups harnessing the versatility to control the release of a compound from a larger …

Mechanisms and substituent effects of metal-free bioorthogonal reactions

T Deb, J Tu, RM Franzini - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Reactions that occur under physiological conditions find diverse uses in the chemical and
biological sciences. However, the limitations that biological systems place on chemical …

Bioorthogonal removal of 3-isocyanopropyl groups enables the controlled release of fluorophores and drugs in vivo

J Tu, M Xu, S Parvez, RT Peterson… - Journal of the American …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Dissociative bioorthogonal reactions allow for chemically controlling the release of bioactive
agents and reporter probes. Here we describe 3-isocyanopropyl substituents as masking …

Chemical Reactions in Living Systems

D Schauenburg, T Weil - Advanced Science, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The term “in vivo (“in the living”) chemistry” refers to chemical reactions that take place in a
complex living system such as cells, tissue, body liquids, or even in an entire organism. In …

Innovative linker strategies for tumor‐targeted drug conjugates

A Dal Corso, L Pignataro, L Belvisi… - … –A European Journal, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The covalent conjugation of potent cytotoxic agents to either macromolecular carriers or
small molecules represents a well‐known approach to increase the therapeutic index of …