Kevin Pels; Paige Dickson; Hongchan An; Thomas Kodadek
ACS Comb. Sci., 2018, 20, 2, 61-69
https://doi.org/10.1021/acscombsci.7b00169

Abstract

We demonstrate that the Knoevenagel condensation can be exploited in combinatorial synthesis on the solid phase. Condensation products from such reactions were structurally characterized, and their Michael reactivity with thiol and phosphine nucleophiles is described. Cyanoacrylamides were previously reported to react reversibly with thiols, and notably, we show that dilution into low pH buffer can trap covalent adducts which are isolable via chromatography. Finally, we synthesized both traditional and DNA-encoded one-bead, one-compound libraries containing cyanoacrylamides as a source of cysteine-reactive, reversibly covalent protein ligands.