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Chemoselective Modification of Viral Surfaces via Bioorthogonal Click Chemistry
Published on: August 19, 2012
Photo-accelerated "click" reaction between diarylsydnones and ring-strained alkynes for bioorthogonal ligation
Xiaocui Zhang1, Xueting Wu1, Shichao Jiang1
1Key Laboratory of Green Chemistry and Technology of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Sichuan University, 29 Wangjiang Road, Chengdu (610064), China. zhipengy@scu.edu.cn.
Abstract:
We constructed a library of diarylsydnone (DASyd) candidates in search of a photoclickable reaction toward alkynes, enabling an ultra-accelerated reactivity, while suppressing the background cycloaddition in the dark. The in vitro and in vivo protein labelling experiments revealed that the photo-accelerated DASyd-alkyne cycloaddition exhibits robust selectivity.
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