Publications by authors named "Adway O Zacharias"

Designing reagents for protein labeling is crucial for investigating cellular events and developing new therapeutics. Historically, much effort has been focused on labeling lysine and arginine residues due to their abundance on the protein periphery. The chemo-selectivity of these reagents is a challenging yet crucial parameter for deciphering properties specifically associated with the targeted amino acid.

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The need for high-throughput intact protein analysis has been rising as drug discovery increasingly requires the analysis of large sets of covalent modifiers and protein therapeutics. Liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) is the primary analytical tool used to date to characterize proteins within the biopharmaceutical industry. However, the speed of LC-MS prevents the analysis of large-scale sample sets (>1000 within a day).

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The copper(I), silver(I), and gold(I) metals bind π-ligands by σ-bonding and π-back bonding interactions. These interactions were investigated using bidentate ancillary ligands with electron donating and withdrawing substituents. The π-ligands span from ethylene to larger terminal and internal alkenes and alkynes.

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Although unsaturated organotrifluoroborates are common synthons in metal-organic chemistry, their transition metal complexes have received little attention. [CH2(3,5-(CH3)2Pz)2]Cu(CH2[double bond, length as m-dash]CHBF3), (SIPr)Cu(MeCN)(CH2[double bond, length as m-dash]CHBF3) and [CH2(3,5-(CH3)2Pz)2]Ag(CH2[double bond, length as m-dash]CHBF3) represent rare, isolable molecules featuring a vinyltrifluoroborate ligand on coinage metals. The X-ray crystal structures show the presence of three-coordinate metal sites in these complexes.

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Protein post-translational modifications and protein interactions are the central research areas in mass-spectrometry-based proteomics. Protein post-translational modifications affect protein structures, stabilities, activities, and all cellular processes are achieved by interactions among proteins and protein complexes. With the continuing advancements of mass spectrometry instrumentations of better sensitivity, speed, and performance, selective enrichment of modifications/interactions of interest from complex cellular matrices during the sample preparation has become the overwhelming bottleneck in the proteomics workflow.

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Organic azide complexes of copper(I) and silver(I), [(SIPr)CuN(1-Ad)NN][SbF], [(SIPr)CuN(2-Ad)NN][SbF], [(SIPr)CuN(Cy)NN][SbF], and [(SIPr)AgN(1-Ad)NN][SbF] have been synthesized by using Ag[SbF] and the corresponding organic azides with (SIPr)CuBr and (SIPr)AgCl (SIPr = 1,3-bis(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)imidazolin-2-ylidene). The copper and silver organic azide complexes were characterized by various spectroscopic techniques and X-ray crystallography. Group trends of isoleptic Cu(I), Ag(I), and Au(I) organic azide complexes are presented on the basis of experimental data and a detailed computational study.

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