Perfluorophenyl azides as Photo Cross-Linker

Perfluorophenyl azides as Photo Cross-Linker

Published on 24/05/2013

Aryl azides are well-known precursors of nitrenes and have been introduced by Fleet et al. as versatile photoaffinity labeling agents to probe biological receptors.

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Aryl azides are well-known precursors of nitrenes and have been introduced by Fleet et al. as versatile photoaffinity labeling agents to probe biological receptors. Upon photolysis, N2 is liberated and a highly unstable singlet Phenylnitrene is being formed in situ, which reacts with neighboring molecules in a variety of reactions. Perfluorophenyl azides, however, form highly stabilized nitrene intermediates that undergo insertion and addition reactions in moderate to good yields rather than intermolecular rearrangements. This type of compounds has been used as photo-cross linker (Lambda max = 258nm) in estrogen receptor studies and for direct surface coating of carbon and organic based polymers.

The field of applications is rather wide, as these compounds can be used for conventional click chemistry applications and also as photo activated linkers for conjugation of small compounds and large biomolecules, as well as for surface functionalization and nanomaterial synthesis.

 

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  • Li-Hong Liu, Mingdi Yan; Perfluorophenyl Azides: New Applications in Surface Functionalization and Nanomaterial Synthesis; Accounts of Chemical Research 2011; 43(11): 1434-1443. DOI 10.1021/ar100066t.

 

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