D’Avino C, Gutiérrez S, Feldhaus MJ, Tomás-Gamasa M, Mascareñas JL. Intracellular Synthesis of Indoles Enabled by Visible-Light Photocatalysis.
J Am Chem Soc 2024;
146:2895-2900. [PMID:
38277674 PMCID:
PMC10859955 DOI:
10.1021/jacs.3c13647]
[Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2023] [Revised: 01/14/2024] [Accepted: 01/22/2024] [Indexed: 01/28/2024]
Abstract
Performing abiotic synthetic transformations in live cell environments represents a new, promising approach to interrogate and manipulate biology and to uncover new types of biomedical tools. We now found that photocatalytic bond-forming reactions can be added to the toolbox of bioorthogonal synthetic chemistry. Specifically, we demonstrate that exogenous styryl aryl azides can be converted into indoles inside living mammalian cells under photocatalytic conditions.
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