Development of a bioorthogonal and highly efficient conjugation method for quantum dots using tetrazine-norbornene cycloaddition.

Fast and sensitive pretargeted labeling of cancer cells through a tetrazine/trans-cyclooctene cycloaddition.

There is considerable interest in the use of bioorthogonal covalent chemistry, such as “click” reactions, to label small molecules located on live or fixed cells. Such labeling has been used for the visualization of glycans, activity-based protein profiling, the site-specific tagging of proteins, the detection of DNA and RNA synthesis, investigation of the fate of small molecules in plants, and...

Discovery of new mutually orthogonal bioorthogonal cycloaddition pairs through computational screening.

Density functional theory (DFT) calculations and experiments in tandem led to discoveries of new reactivities and selectivities involving bioorthogonal sydnone cycloadditions. Dibenzocyclooctyne derivatives (DIBAC and BARAC) were identified to be especially reactive dipolarophiles, which undergo the (3+2) cycloadditions with N-phenyl sydnone with the rate constant of up to 1.46 M-1 s-1. Most si...

3,6-Substituted-1,2,4,5-tetrazines: tuning reaction rates for staged labeling applications.

Cycloaddition reactions involving tetrazines have proven to be powerful bioorthogonal tools for various applications. Conceivably, sequential and selective labeling using tetrazine-based reactions can be achieved by tuning the reaction rate. By varying the substituents on tetrazines, cycloaddition rate variations of over 200 fold have been achieved with the same dienophile. Upon coupling with d...

A New Highly Reactive and Low Lipophilicity Fluorine-18 Labeled Tetrazine Derivative for Pretargeted PET Imaging.

A new (18)F-labeled tetrazine derivative was developed aiming at optimal radiochemistry, fast reaction kinetics in inverse electron-demand Diels-Alder cycloaddition (IEDDA), and favorable pharmacokinetics for in vivo bioorthogonal chemistry. The radiolabeling of the tetrazine was achieved in high yield, purity, and specific activity under mild reaction conditions via conjugation with 5-[(18)F]f...

A benzylic linker promotes methyltransferase catalyzed norbornene transfer for rapid bioorthogonal tetrazine ligation† †Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available. See DOI: 10.1039/c7sc03631k