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The energy-transfer-enabled biocompatible disulfide-ene reaction
Ist Teil von
Nature chemistry, 2018-09, Vol.10 (9), p.981
Ort / Verlag
England
Erscheinungsjahr
2018
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Beschreibungen/Notizen
Sulfur-containing molecules participate in many essential biological processes. Of utmost importance is the methylthioether moiety, present in the proteinogenic amino acid methionine and installed in tRNA by radical-S-adenosylmethionine methylthiotransferases. Although the thiol-ene reaction for carbon-sulfur bond formation has found widespread applications in materials or medicinal science, a biocompatible chemo- and regioselective hydrothiolation of unactivated alkenes and alkynes remains elusive. Here, we describe the design of a general chemoselective anti-Markovnikov hydroalkyl/aryl thiolation of alkenes and alkynes-also allowing the biologically important hydromethylthiolation-by triplet-triplet energy transfer activation of disulfides. This fast disulfide-ene reaction shows extraordinary functional group tolerance and biocompatibility. Transient absorption spectroscopy was used to study the sensitization process in detail. The hereby gained mechanistic insights were successfully employed for optimization of the catalytic system. This photosensitized transformation should stimulate bioimaging applications and carbon-sulfur bond-forming late-stage functionalization chemistry, especially in the context of metabolic labelling.