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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2021

Boronic acid with high oxidative stability and utility in biological contexts.

Brian J Graham, Ian W Windsor, Brian Gold, Ronald T Raines

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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31 citing papers in PubMed.

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  7. On-Demand Chemically Degradable Hydrogels for Biological Applications.Chembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology · 2026
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  13. Nitrate Reduction for Deaminative Suzuki-Miyaura Coupling of Anilines.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2025
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  15. Bench-stable boracyclobutenes.Nature chemistry · 2025
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  20. Stereospecific Enzymatic Conversion of Boronic Acids to Amines.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2024
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Brian J GrahamDepartment of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139.ORCID 0000-0001-9985-3553
Ian W WindsorDepartment of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139.ORCID 0000-0002-6289-6928
Brian GoldDepartment of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139.ORCID 0000-0002-3534-1329
Ronald T RainesDepartment of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139 rtraines@mit.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-7164-1719

Funding

STRUCTURE--FUNCTION ANALYSIS OF RIBONUCLEASE AR01GM044783 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI RAINES, RONALD T · 1990 to 2021
$7.1M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM044783
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite their desirable attributes, boronic acids have had a minimal impact in biological contexts. A significant problem has been their oxidative instability. At physiological pH, phenylboronic acid and its boronate esters are oxidized by reactive oxygen species at rates comparable to those of thiols. After considering the mechanism and kinetics of the oxidation reaction, we reasoned that diminishing electron density on boron could enhance oxidative stability. We found that a boralactone, in which a carboxyl group serves as an intramolecular ligand for the boron, increases stability by 10

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BoronBoronic AcidsHydrogen-Ion ConcentrationOxidation-ReductionBoronBoronic Acidsbioisosteresboronic acidoxidative stabilitypharmacophorestereoelectronic effects

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PMID33653951
PMCPMC7958229

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