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  • Clickable Nucleic Acids: Se...
    Xi, Weixian; Pattanayak, Sankha; Wang, Chen; Fairbanks, Benjamin; Gong, Tao; Wagner, Justine; Kloxin, Christopher J.; Bowman, Christopher N.

    Angewandte Chemie (International ed.), November 23, 2015, Letnik: 54, Številka: 48
    Journal Article

    Synthetic polymer approaches generally lack the ability to control the primary sequence, with sequence control referred to as the holy grail. Two click chemistry reactions were now combined to form nucleobase‐containing sequence‐controlled polymers in simple polymerization reactions. Two distinct approaches are used to form these click nucleic acid (CNA) polymers. These approaches employ thiol–ene and thiol‐Michael reactions to form homopolymers of a single nucleobase (e.g., poly(A)n) or homopolymers of specific repeating nucleobase sequences (e.g., poly(ATC)n). Furthermore, the incorporation of monofunctional thiol‐terminated polymers into the polymerization system enables the preparation of multiblock copolymers in a single reaction vessel; the length of the diblock copolymer can be tuned by the stoichiometric ratio and/or the monomer functionality. These polymers are also used for organogel formation where complementary CNA‐based polymers form reversible crosslinks. Click by click: The utilization of orthogonal thiol‐X click reactions provides a method for sequence‐controlled polymer synthesis. When combined with functional side groups in general and nucleobases in particular, this approach enables the formation of novel, highly functionalized materials in a robust, simple, and scalable manner (Trt=trityl).