Rapid, catalyst free, solid phase modification of DNA by strain promoted cyclooctyne-nitrile oxide click chemistry is reported; the reaction is characterised by mild conditions, occurring in an aqueous environment under atmospheric conditions at room temperature and is complete in 10 minutes.

Aromatic and aliphatic oximes have been deoximated in chloroform-water to the corresponding aldehydes with dilute hydrogen peroxide and triscetylpyridinium tetrakis (oxodiperoxotungsto) phosphate as catalyst. The presence of dipolarophiles in the reaction mixtures allows a competitive reaction that converts oximes into isoxazole and isoxazoline derivatives via the intermediate formation of nitr...

Enantiopure cis-dihydrodiol bacterial metabolites of substituted benzene substrates were used as precursors, in a chemoenzymatic synthesis of the corresponding benzene oxides and of a substituted oxepine, via dihydrobenzene oxide intermediates. A rapid total racemization of the substituted benzene 2,3-oxides was found to have occurred, via their oxepine valence tautomers, in accord with predict...

A series of 3(2H)-furanones, based on side-chain modifications of a parent 3(2H)-furanone, was synthesized in good yield. The parent compound was prepared by hydrogenolysis, and subsequent acid hydrolysis, of isoxazole derivatives. The isoxazole was prepared by a [3+2] 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reaction between 3-butyn-2-ol and nitrile oxide.

An efficient, catalyst free, 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition strategy to conjugate nucleosides and nucleotides with isoxazoles under atmospheric conditions and in an aqueous environment is reported. The protocol involves chloramine-T as a practical reagent to induce in situ nitrile oxide formation and the alkyne partner is attached to the sugar residue or the nucleobase. The reactions are regiospecif...

A fast and practical metal free conjugation of ribonucleosides and 2'-OMe 4-mer oligoribonucleotides has been accomplished by a nitrile oxide alkyne click cycloaddition reaction on the solid-phase, the methodology is suited to modification at either, or both, the 3'- or the 5'-terminus of the oligoribonucleotide substrate.

A series of tetrathiafulvalenes functionalized with one or two trifluoromethyl electron-withdrawing groups (EWG) is obtained by phosphite coupling involving CF3-substituted 1,3-dithiole-2-one derivatives. The relative effects of the EWG such as CF3, CO2Me and CN on the TTF core were investigated from a combination of structural, electrochemical, spectrochemical and theoretical investigations. E...

Self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) of nitrile-substituted oligo(phenylene ethynylene) thiols (NC-OPEn) with a variable chain length n (n ranging from one to three structural units) on Au(111) were studied by synchrotron-based high-resolution X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and near-edge absorption fine-structure spectroscopy. The experimental data suggest that the NC-OPEn molecules form well-def...