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Experimental Approaches for the Synthesis of Low-Valent Metal-Organic Frameworks from Multitopic Phosphine Linkers
Published on: May 12, 2023
A modular synthetic approach toward exhaustively stereodiversified ligand libraries
T M Gierasch1, M Chytil, M T Didiuk
1Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
Abstract:
[structure] This report describes a modular approach to the synthesis of stereodiversified natural product-like libraries. Monomers 2 and 3 were coupled in parallel by silyl-tethered olefin metathesis to generate all 16 stereoisomers of cis-enediols 1. All 16 stereoisomers were incorporated into chimerae having flanking peptidic segments. These chimerae exhibited a broad range of hydrophobicities, raising the possibility that stereochemical variation might be used to tune the pharmacologic properties of small molecules.
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