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However, most coupling chemistries do not go to completion so that the substrate will contain a mixture of functional groups capped with attached probe (SR) while others remain free (S ). These residual reachve functional groups must be capped or blocked in some manner to reduce nonspecific binding to the microarray. Residual surface amines may be capped by reaction with succinic anhydride. This renders the support neutral (SR). Using this abbreviated nomenclature, we can describe common surface modifications for microarray substrates. 

Most immobilizahon chemistries for microarrays currently rely upon derivatization of the substrate with amine-reactive functional groups such as aldehydes, epoxides, or NHS esters. While we can choose from many available surface-reactive chemistries, it is important to keep in mind that they must be compatible with a printing process. Ideally, the biomolecule should react completely and rapidly with the substrate in order to achieve good spot formation. It is also critical that the probe remain or be recoverable in its active state following printing. If too reactive a chemistry is employed there is the possibility for excessive crosslinking that can hinder performance by reducing the number of rotatable bonds in the probe. 

The best substrate will present the probe to the soluhon phase with as much rotahonal freedom as possible so that it can undergo favorable binding with the incoming target molecule. The binding should approximate free solution association. Table 3.2 lists common coupling chemistries employed for probe (nucleic acid and protein) attachments useful for microarrays. 

Many of these have been discussed in the previous sections. Additional information about specific coupling chemistries for proteins can be found in the protocols and discussion regarding solid phase reagents (Matson, 2000). 

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Procion dyes A group of azo dyestuffs which can form covalent bonds to cellulose by reactive groups. 

The expression template reaction indicates mostly a reaction in which a complexed me) ion holds reactive groups in the correct orientation to allow selective multi-step reactions. T1 template effect of the metal is twofold (i) polymerization reactions are suppressed, since th local concentration of reactants around the metal ion is very high (ii) multi-step reactions are possible, since the metal holds the reactants together. In the following one-step synthesis eleven molecules (three ethylenediamine — en , six formaldehyde, and two ammonia molecules) react with each other to form one single compound in a reported yield of 95%. It is ob vious that such a reaction is dictated by the organizing power of the metal ion (I.I. Creasei 1977),... 

The syntheses given are also useful for connecting porphyrins with other chroihophores and reactive groups, e.g., quinoncs. If the reported yields are reproducible, large electron donor-acceptor supramolecules should become accessible on a large scale. 

Aniiinovinyl derivatives condense with methyl or methylene reactive groups of heterocycloammonium or ketomethylene. and are useful intermediates in the syntheses of thiazolotnmethine cyanines and thiazolodimethine neulrocyanine. They are prepared according to the following methods ... 

Except in the case of formaldehyde, the electrophilic character of carbon atom of an aliphatic aldehyde is not strong enough to allow its condensation on a CH3 reactive group. However, such a condensation can occur with an aromatic or pseudoaromatic substance such as benzal-dehyde or pyrroloaldehyde, and the of the resulting dimethine dyes have been used in this last case to obtain the basicity scale of various rings (16). 

Anilino vinyl derivatives of thiazolium (30, R = H) or acetanilido (30, R = C0CH3), as well as formyl methylene 30b (methods E-G), give asymmetrical dyes when condensed with a methyl reactive group of another species (Scheme 42). Mesosubstituted symmetrical or unsymmet-rical thiazolocyanines are obtainable via /S-alkylmercaptovinyl thiazolium derivatives (32) (methods H and I) (Scheme 43). a or /S carbon atoms of the trimethine chain can be substituted by acetyl when a dye is treated with acetic anhydride (method L). The hydrolysis of neocyanines lead to trimethine cyanine by fractional elimination of a composant chain (method K). 

These dyes possess two independent chromophoric chains of even methine (neutro) and uneven methine (cyanine) fixed on a central ketometbylene nucleus. The methylene reactive group is first used for the neutrocyanine synthesis in position 5. the, quaternization of which can ensure a subsequent polymethine synthesis in position 2 of a cationic dye by ordinary means (Scheme 58). As indicated, this quaternized neutrocyanine (37) may as well give another neutrocyanine. 

Random copolymerization is rather unusual. Sometimes a monomer which does not easily form a homopolymer will readily add to a reactive group at the end of a growing polymer chain. In turn, that monomer tends to make the other monomer much more reactive. 

Of course, in reactions (5.A) and (5.B) the hydrocarbon sequences R and R can be the same or different, contain any number of carbon atoms, be linear or cyclic, and so on. Likewise, the general reactions (5.C) and (5.E) certainly involve hydrocarbon sequences between the reactive groups A and B. The notation involved in these latter reactions is particularly convenient, however, and we shall use it extensively in this chapter. It will become clear as we proceed that the stoichiometric proportions of reactive groups-A and B in the above notation—play an important role in determining the characteristics of the polymeric product. Accordingly, we shall confine our discussions for the present to reactions of the type given by (5.E), since equimolar proportions of A and B are assured by the structure of this monomer. 

The foregoing conclusion does not mean that the rate of the reaction proceeds through Table 5.1 at a constant value. The rate of reaction depends on the concentrations of reactive groups, as well as on the reactivities of the latter. Accordingly, the rate of the reaction decreases as the extent of reaction progresses. When the rate law for the reaction is extracted from proper kinetic experiments, specific reactions are found to be characterized by fixed rate constants over a range of n values. 

Among the complications that can interfere with this conclusion is the possibility that the polymer becomes insoluble beyond a critical molecular weight or that the low molecular weight by-product molecules accumulate as the viscosity of the mixture increases and thereby shift some equilibrium to favor reactants. Note that we do not express reservations about the effect of increasing viscosity on the mobility of the polymer molecules themselves. Apparently it is not the migration of the center of mass of the molecule as a whole that determines the reactivity but, rather, the mobility of the chain ends which carry the reactive groups. 

Both Eqs. (5.9) and (5.10) predict rate laws which are first order with respect to the concentration of each of the reactive groups the proportionality constant has a different significance in the two cases, however. The observed rate laws which suggest a reactivity that is independent of molecular size and the a priori expectation cited in item (5) regarding the magnitudes of different kinds of k values lend credibility to the version presented as Eq. (5.9). 

We shall proceed on the assumption that [A] o and [B] o are equal. As noted above, the case of both reactive groups on the same molecule is a way of achieving this condition. Accordingly, we rearrange Eq. (5.12) to give the instantaneous concentration of unreacted A groups as a function of time ... 

The diacid-diamine amidation described in reaction 2 in Table 5.4 has been widely studied in the melt, in solution, and in the solid state. When equal amounts of two functional groups are present, both the rate laws and the molecular weight distributions are given by the treatment of the preceding sections. The stoichiometric balance between reactive groups is readily obtained by precipitating the 1 1 ammonium salt from ethanol ... 

We now turn to two of the problems we have sidestepped until now. In this section we consider the polymerization of reactants in which a stoichiometric imbalance exists in the numbers of reactive groups A and B. In the next section we shall consider the effect of monomers with a functionality greater than 2. 

For simplicity, we assume that the reaction mixture still contains only A and B as reactive groups, but that either one (or both) of these is present (totally or in part) in a molecule that contains more than two of the reactive groups. We use f to represent the number of reactive groups in a molecule when this quantity exceeds 2, and represent a multifunctional molecule Af or Bj-. For... 

Table 5.6 Schematic Illustration Showing the Formation of a Linear Polymer by the Reaction of One of the f- 1 Reactive Groups at the End of a Portion of Polymer...

For a fixed extent of reaction, the presence of multifunctional monomers in an equimolar mixture of reactive groups increases the degree of polymerization. Conversely, for the same mixture a lesser extent of reaction is needed to reach a specified with multifunctional reactants than without them. Remember that this entire approach is developed for the case of stoichiometric balance. If the numbers of functional groups are unequal, this effect works in opposition to the multifunctional groups. 

Reactive extrusion Reactive groups Reactive ion etching (RIE)... 

Reactive groups can be introduced into the polymer backbone by the choice of an appropriate functional monomer. Commercially available examples of such monomers ate as follows ... 

Artificial endonucleases, ie, molecules able to cleave double-stranded DNA at a specific sequence, have also been developed. These endonucleases can be obtained by attaching a chemically reactive group to a sequence-specific oligonucleotide. When the oligonucleotide is bound to its complementary sequence, the activation of the reactive group results in double-stranded DNA cleavage. 

Modified oligonucleotides can be used to cross-link DNA sequences via a reactive group tethered to an oligonucleotide. When irradiated with uv light, psoralens (31) reacts with thymine bases, and the reaction yields a cross-link if the thymine residues are adjacent to each other on opposite strands. Psoralen linked to oligonucleotides have been shown to induce site-specific cross-links in vitro (51). 

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