Photoreactive esters

Syntheses of Isotopically Labeled, Spin-labeled, and Photoreactive Esters... 

The spin label in question may as well be in the carboxylic acid fragment as in the alcohol moiety. Photoreactive esters bear azido groups in their carboxylic acid moieties. The esterification of nitroxide- or azide-bearing carboxylic acids with complex alcohols and CDI is illustrated in Table 3-6 by way of some examples. 

TABLE 3-6. Spin-labeled and photoreactive esters prepared with imidazolides. 

Recently several examples of diolefin crystals in which the reaction behaviour deviates from the topochemical rule have been observed. For example, in the photoreaction of methyl a-cyano-4-[2-(4-pyridyl)-ethenyljcinnamate (2 OMe), the first reaction occurs exclusively at the pyridyl side although the distance between the ethylenic double bonds on the pyridyl side is exactly the same as that between the ethylenic double bonds on the ester side (4.049 A), as shown in Fig. 5 (Maekawa et al., 1991a). A few other unsymmetrical diolefin compounds display the same regioselective behaviour (Hatada, 1989). 

Yeom and Frei [96] showed that irradiation at 266 nm of TS-1 loaded with CO and CH3OH gas at 173 K gave methyl formate as the main product. The photoreaction was monitored in situ by FT-IR spectroscopy and was attributed to reduction of CO at LMCT-excited framework Ti centers (see Sect. 3.2) under concurrent oxidation of methanol. Infrared product analysis based on experiments with isotopically labeled molecules revealed that carbon monoxide is incorporated into the ester as a carbonyl moiety. The authors proposed that CO is photoreduced by transient Ti + to HCO radical in the primary redox step. This finding opens up the possibility for synthetic chemistry of carbon monoxide in transition metal materials by photoactivation of framework metal centers. 

The [2 + 2] photodimerization of a, j8-unsaturated sulfones is correctly viewed as a photoreaction of alkenes, rather than the sulfone group, and this aspect has been reviewed recently by Reid, as part of a wider survey of the photoreaction of O- and S-heterocycles. The topic continues to attract considerable interest and a few recent examples, as well as some synthetic applications, will be discussed here. Much of the photodimerization work has been carried out on the benzo[fc]thiophene (thianaphthene) 1,1-dioxide system. For example. Porter and coworkers have shown that both 3-carboxybenzo[i]thiophene 1,1-dioxide (65) and its methyl ester give only the head-to-head (hth), anti dimer (66) on irradiation in ethanol. In a rather unusual finding for such systems, the same dimer was obtained on thermal dimerization of 65. Similar findings for a much wider variety of 3-substituted benzo[fi]thiophene 1,1-dioxides have been reported more recently by Geneste and coworkers . In the 2-substituted analogs, the hth dimer is accompanied by some of the head-to-tail (htt), anti dimer. The formation of the major dimer appears to proceed by way of an excited triplet and the regiochemistry observed is in accord with frontier MO theory. 

Figure 5.18 SASD is a photoreactive crosslinker that can be used to modify amine-containing compounds through its NHS ester end and subsequently photoactivated to initiate coupling with nucleophiles (after ring expansion to an intermediate dehydroazepine derivative). The crosslinks may be selectively cleaved at the internal disulfide group using DTT.

The following operations should be done using standard safety procedures for working with radioactive compounds. All steps involving SASD prior to initiation of the photoreaction should be done protected from light to avoid loss of phenyl azide activity. The radiolabeling procedure should be done quickly to prevent excessive loss of NHS ester activity due to hydrolysis. 

HSAB (N-hydroxysuccinimidyl-4-azidobenzoate) is a heterobifunctional reagent containing an amine-reactive NHS ester on one end and a photoreactive phenyl azide group on the other end... 

SANPAH (N-succinimidyl-6-(4 -azido-2 -nitrophenylamino)hexanoate) is a heterobifunctional crosslinking agent containing an NHS ester and a photoreactive phenyl azide group (Thermo Fisher). The NHS ester end can react with amine groups in proteins and other molecules, forming... 

SADP, N-succinimidyl-(4-azidophenyl)l,3 -dithiopropionate, is a photoreactive heterobifunctional crosslinker that is cleavable by treatment with a disulfide reducing agent (Thermo Fisher). The crosslinker contains an amine-reactive NHS ester and a photoactivatable phenyl azide group, providing specific, directed coupling at one end and nonselective insertion capability at the other end. 

Sulfosuccinimidyl-2-(7-azido-4-methylcoumarin-3-acetamide)ethyl-l,3 -dithiopropionate (SAED) is a photoreactive heterobifunctional crosslinking agent that also contains a fluorescent group (Thermo Fisher). The sulfo-NHS ester end of the reagent reacts with primary amines in proteins and other molecules to form stable amide linkages. The photoreactive end is an AMCA... 

PNP-DTP, p-nitrophenyl-2-diazo-3,3,3-trifluoropropionate, is a photoreactive heterobifunctional crosslinker that contains an amine-reactive group on one end and a photosensitive diazo group on the other (Chowdhry et al., 1976) (Thermo Fisher), p-nitrophenyl esters react similarly... 

Figure 28.11 Sulfo-SBED is a label transfer agent that contains a water-soluble sulfo-NHS ester to label bait proteins and a phenyl azide group for photoreactive capture of a prey protein. The biotin label can be used for detection or isolation of protein-protein conjugates using (strept)avidin reagents. The stars indicate the atoms that were used to measure the indicated molecular dimensions.

DMABN suffers from the fact that dual fluorescence is only observable for polar media. Therefore, the pretwisted ester DMPYRBEE has been developed which shows dual fluorescence also in alkane solvents. 9 This probe allowed measurement of nonpolar polymeric siloxane oils and a comparison with the corresponding measurements using an EXCIMER probe. As expected from the decreased reaction volume necessary for the TICT photoreaction, the latter is usable down to much lower temperatures (higher viscosities) and probes a larger fraction of free volume. 26 ... 

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