The synthesis of N-acylsulfonamide-linked nucleosides via the Sulfo-Click reaction discloses new applications in the field of nucleic acid chemistry
La synthèse de nucléosides liés liés par un motif N-acylsulfonamide obtenu via la réaction Sulfo-Click permet d'envisager de nouvelles applications dans le domaine de la chimie des acides nucléiques
Résumé
Click reactions are fast, chemoselective, and high-yielding covalent reactions between two
reactive functions without generating armless byproducts.1
Such ideal reactions have found a
wide range of applications2
in particular in the context of bioorthogonal chemistry.3 Although
the number of click reactions available has considerably grown over the past twenty years, the
toolbox continues to rise and improvements are still required to achieve compatible reactions
in a biological environment.
The sulfo-click reaction is an emergent surrogate click reaction involving a thioacid that
reacts specifically with a sulfonyl azide leading to the formation of a N-acylsulfonamide
linkage. The sulfo-click reaction fulfills the criteria of click reactions, generates only sulfur
and dinitrogen as byproducts and is compatible with aqueous conditions. These characteristics
are of particular interest in the field of nucleic acid chemistry. We recently developed the
synthesis of original 4′-thioacid nucleoside analogues that opened the way to new interesting
applications of the sulfo-click reaction.
We will present our endeavor taking advantage of the biorthogonality of the sulfo-click
reaction for bioconjugation.5
Indeed, a variety of sulfonyl azide derivatives were successfully
conjugated to 4’-thioacid nucleosides under aqueous biocompatible conditions. Then, the
interesting properties of the N-acylsulfonamide linkage in the field of medicinal chemistry6
were exploited to synthesize new cyclic dinucleotides for potential therapeutic applications by
activating the native immune response.