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Functionalization of harmonic nanoparticles for drug release and multimodal imaging applications

Adrian Stefan Gheata

Cancer is among the leading causes of death worldwide, and as knowledge of the disease continues to grow there is an increasing interest towards precision medicine: more specifically towards the theranostics field, i.e the development of targeted molecular ...

EPFL2024

Novel Alkynylation Methods through the Combination of Hypervalent Iodine Reagents and Alkynyl-trifluoroborate Salts

Julien Aymeric Borrel

The alkyne motif is a versatile functional group often encountered in organic chemistry. It can be involved in various transformations such as the alkyne-azide cycloaddition and has found widespread application in medicinal chemistry, chemical biology and ...

EPFL2024

New Polymers from Biomass-Derived Hydroxycinnamic Acid Derivatives

Ghezae Tekleab

Polymers play a central role in shaping our world across various fields, but their heavy reliance on petrochemicals poses climate change, environmental and health risks. To address and alleviate these issues, transitioning to sustainable polymers, sourced ...

EPFL2024

Head‐to‐Tail Dimerization of N‐Heterocyclic Diazoolefins

Rosario Scopelliti, Kay Severin, Farzaneh Fadaei Tirani, Andrzej Sienkiewicz, Zhaowen Dong, Paul Varava, Anastasia Gitlina, Wolfram Feuerstein, Tak Hin Wong

The head-to-tail dimerization of N-heterocyclic diazoolefins is described. The products of these formal (3+3) cycloaddition reactions are strongly reducing quinoidal tetrazines. Oxidation of the tetrazines occurs in a stepwise fashion, and we were able to ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2023

Achieving high hybridization density at DNA biosensor surfaces using branched spacer and click chemistry

Sandrine Gerber, Mounir Driss Mensi, Perrine Agnes Edith Robin, Lucas Mayoraz, Alireza Kavand

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the necessity to develop fast, highly sensitive and selective virus detection methods. Surface-based DNA-biosensors are interesting candidates for this purpose. Functionalization of solid substrates with DNA must be pr ...

2023

Site-selective template-directed synthesis of antibody Fc conjugates with concomitant ligand release

Natalia Gasilova, Jean-Manuel Segura

Template-directed methods are emerging as some of the most effective means to conjugate payloads at selective sites of monoclonal antibodies (mAbs). We have previously reported a method based on an engineered Fc-III reactive peptide to conjugate a radionuc ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2023

New Cu (I) complexes as catalyst for "click" reaction: An experimental and computational study

Farzaneh Fadaei Tirani

In this work, two novel well-defined Cu (I) complexes of a Schiff base ligand are described. For this purpose, N, N '-bis (trans-cinnamaldehyde) ethylenediimine [C20H20N2] (L) and Cu (I) complex of the type [CuC20H20N2)PPh3Cl] (C1) and [Cu(C20H20N2)PPh3Br] ...

WILEY2023

Synthesis of Fluorescent Cyclic Peptides via Gold(I)-Catalyzed Macrocyclization

Jérôme Waser, Aleksandra Radenovic, Beat Fierz, Nathan Cyprien Arsène Ronceray, Xingyu Liu, Wei Cai

Rapid and efficient cyclization methods that form structurally novel peptidic macrocycles are of high importance for medicinal chemistry. Herein, we report the first gold(I)-catalyzed macrocyclization of peptide-EBXs (ethynylbenziodoxolones) via C2-Trp C–H ...

2023

Biological nanopores for single-molecule sensing

Matteo Dal Peraro, Chan Cao, Simon Finn Mayer

Evolution has found countless ways to transport material across cells and cellular compartments separated by membranes. Protein assemblies are the cornerstone for the formation of channels and pores that enable this regulated passage of molecules in and ou ...

Cell Press2022

Azide-Containing Hypervalent Iodine Reagents for Biomolecules Functionalization

Raphaël Michel Henri Simonet-Davin

The goal of my PhD was the development of a new method for unselective surface labeling, not substrate-specific, that would give access to direct visualization of any surface interactions. In order to achieve this challenging goal, we wanted to develop a g ...

EPFL2022

Radical Alkynylations with EthynylBenziodoXolones: From Photocatalysis to Direct Excitation

Jérôme Waser, Stephanie Grace Elizabeth Amos

Ethynylbenziodoxolones (EBXs) have recently emerged as potent reagents for the alkynylation of radicals. Their combination with photocatalysis allows the synthesis of valuable alkynes at room temperature. Herein, we discuss two photomediated strategies for ...

2022

Cu(I)-Catalyzed gem-Aminoalkynylation of Diazo Compounds: Synthesis of Fluorinated Propargylic Amines

Jérôme Waser, Guillaume Dominique Pisella, Nieves Pilar Ramirez Hernandez

The gem-aminoalkynylation of fluorinated diazo compounds catalyzed by a simple Cu(I) salt is described. This three-component reaction allows the synthesis of propargylic amines with broad functional group tolerance. Both electron-rich and electron-poor ani ...

2021

Two-step immobilization of metronidazole prodrug on TEMPO cellulose nanofibrils through thiol-yne click chemistry for in situ controlled release

David Lyndon Emsley, Jasmine Viger-Gravel

Nowadays, drug encapsulation and drug release from cellulose nanofibrils systems are intense research topics, and commercial grades of cellulose nanomaterials are currently available. In this work we present an ester-containing prodrug of metronidazole tha ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2021

Covalent and Noncovalent Conjugation of Degradable Polymer Nanoparticles to T Lymphocytes

Harm-Anton Klok, Tanja Thomsen

Cells are attractive as carriers that can help to enhance control over the biodistribution of polymer nanomedicines. One strategy to use cells as carriers is based on the cell surface immobilization of the nanoparticle cargo. While a range of strategies ca ...

American Chemical Society2021

TiCl3-Mediated Synthesis of 2,3,3-Trisubstituted Indolenines: Total Synthesis of (+)-1,2-Dehydroaspidospermidine, (+)-Condyfoline, and (-)-Tubifoline

Jieping Zhu, Qian Wang, Cyril Piemontesi, Bastien Delayre

2,3,3-Trisubstituted indolenine constitutes an integral part of many biologically important monoterpene indole alkaloids. We report herein an unprecedented access to this skeleton by a TiCl3-mediated reductive cyclization of tetrasubstituted alkenes bearin ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2020

Ethynylation of Cysteine Residues: From Peptides to Proteins in Vitro and in Living Cells

Jérôme Waser, Romain Gaëtan Tessier, Javier De Ceballos Cerrajeria, Raj Kumar Nandi

Current approaches to introduce terminal alkynes for bioorthogonal reactions into biomolecules still present limitations in terms of either reactivity, selectivity, or adduct stability. We present a method for the ethynylation of cysteine residues based on ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2020

Synthesis, Characterisation and Crystal structure of a New Cu(II)-carboxamide Complex and CuO nanoparticles as New Catalysts in the CuAAC reaction and Investigation of their Antibacterial activity

Farzaneh Fadaei Tirani, Kurt Schenk

The bidentate carboxamide ligand N-(thiazole-2-yl) picolinamide (LH) was synthesized in the environmentally friendly ionic liquid TBAB, and the five-coordinated Cu-II-complex, [Cu(L)(2)(H2O)]center dot CHCl3 (1) was synthesized from LH and copper(II)acetat ...

2020

Surface functionalization of metal oxide harmonic nanoparticles for targeted cancer imaging

Raphaël Jovita De Matos

Cancer is a major health burden worldwide and the leading cause of death in industrialized countries. Early detection is a primary factor of survival and remission rate. Classical imaging methods such as magnetic resonance imaging, ultrasound imaging and m ...

EPFL2020

Development of Photocatalysts towards the Visible-Light driven C-Terminal Bioconjugation of Peptides and Proteins

Marion Marie-Agnès Garreau

If small molecules have led to tremendous progress in curing diseases, new therapeutic agents such as peptides or antibody-drugs conjugates have emerged as a highly promising next generation of pharmaceuticals. As for small molecules, their derivatization ...

EPFL2020

Reactivity and biological activity of N,N,S-Schiff-base rhodium pentamethylcyclopentadienyl complexes

Paul Joseph Dyson, Lucinda Kate Batchelor

Neutral piano-stool complexes of the general formula [(eta(5)-C5Me5)Rh(L-OR)] (R = Me, 1; R = Et, 2; R = Pe(i), 3) have been prepared in alcohols (methanol, 1; ethanol, 2; isopropanol, 3) from the Schiff-base 5-methyl-4-{(pyridin-2-ylmethylene)amino}-4H-1, ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2020