Crossing the Solubility Rubicon: 15-Crown-5 Facilitates the Preparation of Water-Soluble Sulfo-NHS Esters in Organic Solvents.
Crossing the Solubility Rubicon: 15-Crown-5 Facilitates the Preparation of Water-Soluble Sulfo-NHS Esters in Organic Solvents.
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10.1021/acs.bioconjchem.3c00396
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发表时间:
2024-01-17
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4.7
通讯作者:
Parkin, Alison
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作者:
Yates, Nicholas D. J.;Miles, Connor G.;Spicer, Christopher D.;Fascione, Martin A.;Parkin, Alison
The Sulfo-NHS ester is a mainstay reagent for facilitating amide bond formation between carboxylic acids and amine functionalities in water. However, the preparation of Sulfo-NHS esters currently requires hydrophobic carboxylic acids, which are poorly water-soluble, to first be reacted with the N-hydroxysulfosuccinimide sodium salt, which is insoluble in organic solvents. The mutually incompatible solvation requirements thus complicate the synthesis of Sulfo-NHS esters. As a simple, rapid, and cost-effective solution to this problem, we report that the use of 15-crown-5 to complex the sodium cation of N-hydroxysulfosuccinimide sodium salt circumnavigates these solvation incompatibility issues by rendering the N-hydroxysulfosuccinimide salt soluble in organic solvents, resulting in a cleaner esterification reaction and thus improved yields of activated ester product. We also demonstrate that the resultant “crowned” Sulfo-NHS-ester remains water-soluble and is no less reactive than its classic “uncrowned” Sulfo-NHS counterpart when used in bioconjugation reactions between protein amine-functionalities and hydrophobic carboxylic acids.
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