Radical-mediated click-clip reactions.
basic_science · Level V
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Abstract
Click reactions, which are characterized by rapid, high-yielding, and highly selective coupling of two reaction partners, are powerful tools in synthesis but are rarely reversible. Innovative strategies that reverse such couplings in a precise and on-demand manner, enabling a click-clip sequence, would greatly expand the technique's versatility. Herein, a click and clip reaction pair is demonstrated by manipulation of a sulfilimine linkage. Phenothiazines and amines are rapidly and quantitatively coupled through oxidative sulfilimine bond formation with N-bromosuccinimide, and the resulting sulfilimine bromides then undergo quantitative reversion to the phenothiazines and amines through photoreduction at 380 nanometers. This protocol enables fabrication of depolymerizable macromolecules and reversible modification of aminosaccharides, demonstrating high selectivity and efficiency for manipulating sulfilimine linkages in complex systems.