Alkyne-based click polymerizations have been nurtured into a powerful synthetic technique for the preparation of new polymers with advanced structures and versatile properties. Among them, emerging thiol-yne, hydroxyl-yne, amino-yne made remarkable progress from reactions to applications. These avoid usage inherently dangerous monomers are safer operate than classical azide-alkyne polymerizatio...

Abstract We have developed a nickel-catalyzed insertion reaction of an alkyne into 2-(trifluoromethyl)-1,3-benzothiazole to give seven-membered benzothiazepine that is converted 2-(trifluoromethyl)quinoline by thermal desulfidation. This process can be considered formal substitution sulfur atom with alkyne. The structure the thianickelacycle intermediate formed through oxidative addition C–S bo...

Separation of the enantiomers of new chiral alkynes in strategic syntheses and bioorthogonal studies is always problematic. The chiral column high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) method in general could not be directly used to resolve such substrates, since the differentiation of the alkyne segment with the other alkane/alkene segment is not significant in the stationary phase, and the...

Isoxazole ring formation was examined as a potential Cu-free alternative click reaction to Cu(I)-catalyzed alkyne/azide cycloaddition. The isoxazole reaction was explored at macroscopic and radiotracer concentrations with the fac-[M(I)(CO)3](+) (M = Re, (99m)Tc) core for use as a noncoordinating linker strategy between covalently linked molecules. Two click assembly methods (click, then chelate...

1,3-dipolar Cycloaddition (DC) reactions have emerged as one of the important type of cycloaddition reactions from the view point of chemical and biological industry. Particularly the Azide-Alkyne Cycloaddition, also known as “Click Chemistry” has opened up new challenges in front of medicinal and pharmaceutical chemists. Bioconjugation is a technique of coupling two different biomolecules by c...

Insights into the mechanism of the unusual trans-hydrogenation of internal alkynes catalyzed by {Cp*Ru} complexes were gained by para-hydrogen (p-H2 ) induced polarization (PHIP) transfer NMR spectroscopy. It was found that the productive trans-reduction competes with a pathway in which both H atoms of H2 are delivered to a single alkyne C atom of the substrate while the second alkyne C atom is...

Macrocyclization can be used to constrain peptides in their bioactive conformations, thereby supporting target affinity and bioactivity. In particular, for the targeting of challenging protein-protein interactions, macrocyclic peptides have proven to be very useful. Available approaches focus on the stabilization of α-helices, which limits their general applicability. Here we report for the fir...

Sugar moieties are present in a wide range of bioactive molecules. Thus, having versatile and fast methods for the decoration of biomimetic molecules with sugars is of fundamental importance. The glycosylation of peptoids and polyamines as examples of such biomimetic molecules is reported here. The method uses Cu-catalyzed azide alkyne cycloaddition to promote the reaction of azidosugars with e...

A squaraine rotaxane scaffold with four alkyne groups is readily converted into a range of dendritic architectures using high-yielding copper-catalyzed alkyne azide cycloaddition (CuAAC) chemistry. A convergent synthesis approach is more efficient than a divergent pathway. Dendritic squaraine rotaxanes with peripheral amine groups can be further functionalized to produce multivalent deep-red fl...

Cyclic peptides and peptoids were prepared using the thiol-ene Michael-type reaction. The linear precursors were provided with additional functional groups allowing for subsequent conjugation: an orthogonally protected thiol, a protected maleimide, or an alkyne. The functional group for conjugation was placed either within the cycle or in an external position. The click reactions employed for c...