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ArticleNature communications2023

Assembly drives regioselective azide-alkyne cycloaddition reaction.

Qiaochu Jiang, Wenjun Zhan, Xiaoyang Liu, Lin Bai, Manli Wang, Ying Xu, Gaolin Liang

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Article in Nature communications, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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Qiaochu Jiang *State Key Laboratory of Digital Medical Engineering, School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Southeast University, 2 Sipailou, Nanjing, 210096, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0009-5333-1931
Wenjun Zhan *State Key Laboratory of Digital Medical Engineering, School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Southeast University, 2 Sipailou, Nanjing, 210096, China.
Xiaoyang LiuState Key Laboratory of Digital Medical Engineering, School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Southeast University, 2 Sipailou, Nanjing, 210096, China.
Lin BaiState Key Laboratory of Digital Medical Engineering, School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Southeast University, 2 Sipailou, Nanjing, 210096, China.
Manli WangState Key Laboratory of Digital Medical Engineering, School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Southeast University, 2 Sipailou, Nanjing, 210096, China.
Ying XuState Key Laboratory of Digital Medical Engineering, School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Southeast University, 2 Sipailou, Nanjing, 210096, China.
Gaolin LiangState Key Laboratory of Digital Medical Engineering, School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Southeast University, 2 Sipailou, Nanjing, 210096, China. gliang@seu.edu.cn.

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 22074016National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 22234002
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Azide-alkyne cycloaddition reaction is a very common organic reaction to synthesize nitrogen-containing heterocycles. Once catalyzed by Cu(I) or Ru(II), it turns out to be a click reaction and thus is widely applied in chemical biology for labeling. However, besides their poor regioselectivity towards this reaction, these metal ions are not biologically friendly. Hence, it is an urgent need to develop a metal-free azide-alkyne cycloaddition reaction for biomedical applications. In this work, we found that, in the absence of metal ions, supramolecular self-assembly in an aqueous solution could realize this reaction with excellent regioselectivity. Nap-Phe-Phe-Lys(azido)-OH firstly self-assembled into nanofibers. Then, Nap-Phe-Phe-Gly(alkynyl)-OH at equivalent concentration approached to react with the assembly to yield the cycloaddition product Nap-Phe-Phe-Lys(triazole)-Gly-Phe-Phe-Nap to form nanoribbons. Due to space confinement effect, the product was obtained with excellent regioselectivity. Employing the excellent properties of supramolecular self-assembly, we are applying this strategy to realize more reactions without metal ion catalysis.

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PMID37402737
PMCPMC10319796

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