Mitsunobu and related reactions: advances and applications

KCK Swamy, NNB Kumar, E Balaraman… - Chemical …, 2009 - ACS Publications
The substitution of primary or secondary alcohols with nucleophiles mediated by a redox
combination of a trialkylor triarylphosphine and a dialkyl azodicarboxylate is popularly …

4′-Fluoro-nucleosides and nucleotides: from nucleocidin to an emerging class of therapeutics

PT Lowe, D O'Hagan - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The history and development of 4′-fluoro-nucleosides is discussed in this review. This is a
class of nucleosides which have their origin in the discovery of the rare fluorine containing …

Conformationally constrained PNA analogues: structural evolution toward DNA/RNA binding selectivity

VA Kumar, KN Ganesh - Accounts of chemical research, 2005 - ACS Publications
Since its discovery 12 years ago, aminoethylglycyl peptide nucleic acid (aeg-PNA) has
emerged as one of the successful DNA mimics for potential therapeutic and diagnostic …

Perspectives on conformationally constrained peptide nucleic acid (PNA): insights into the structural design, properties and applications

C Suparpprom, T Vilaivan - RSC Chemical Biology, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Peptide nucleic acid or PNA is a synthetic DNA mimic that contains a sequence of
nucleobases attached to a peptide-like backbone derived from N-2-aminoethylglycine. The …

Strategies for the synthesis of fluorinated nucleosides, nucleotides and oligonucleotides

H Shet, R Sahu, YS Sanghvi, AR Kapdi - The Chemical Record, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Fluorinated nucleosides and oligonucleotides are of specific interest as probes for studying
nucleic acids interaction, structures, biological transformations, and its biomedical …

Versatility of peptide nucleic acids (PNA s): Role in chemical biology, drug discovery, and origins of life

C Sharma, SK Awasthi - Chemical biology & drug design, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
This review briefly discussed nomenclature, synthesis, chemistry, and biophysical properties
of a plethora of PNA derivatives reported since the discovery of aeg PNA. Different synthetic …

Biological activity and biotechnological aspects of peptide nucleic acid

KE Lundin, L Good, R Strömberg, A Gräslund… - Advances in …, 2006 - Elsevier
During the latest decades a number of different nucleic acid analogs containing natural
nucleobases on a modified backbone have been synthesized. An example of this is peptide …

Synthetic methods for fluorinated olefins

H Yanai, T Taguchi - European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Fluoro‐olefin compounds, because of their favorable physicochemical properties, have
been used as key materials in the fields of medicinal chemistry, chemical biology, and …

(Z)-Selective Synthesis of Bromofluoroalkenes via the TMSCF2Br-Mediated Tandem Reaction with para-Quinone Methides

J Zhu, M Xu, B Gong, A Lin, S Gao - Organic Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
We report herein a tandem reaction of para-quinone methides with TMSCF2Br to construct
bromofluoroalkenes in a Z-selective manner. While TMSCF2Br has been documented as the …

Peptide nucleic acids (PNAs), a chemical overview

A Porcheddu, G Giacomelli - Current medicinal chemistry, 2005 - ingentaconnect.com
Peptide nucleic acid (PNA) is a nucleic acid analogue and a fully synthetic DNA/RNA-
recognising ligand with a neutral peptide-like backbone. In spite of the large change on the …