Nature Communications (Oct 2020)

Light-induced primary amines and o-nitrobenzyl alcohols cyclization as a versatile photoclick reaction for modular conjugation

  • An-Di Guo,
  • Dan Wei,
  • Hui-Jun Nie,
  • Hao Hu,
  • Chengyuan Peng,
  • Shao-Tong Li,
  • Ke-Nian Yan,
  • Bin-Shan Zhou,
  • Lei Feng,
  • Chao Fang,
  • Minjia Tan,
  • Ruimin Huang,
  • Xiao-Hua Chen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19274-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Developing new click chemistry reactions for robust molecular assembly remains challenging. Here the authors report a light-induced primary amines and o-nitrobenzyl alcohols photoclick cyclization for rapid and modular functionalization of small molecules and native biomolecules, in vitro and in living systems.