Strained alkenes and alkynes are the predominant dienophiles used in inverse electron demand Diels-Alder (IEDDA) reactions. However, their instability, cross-reactivity, and accessibility are problematic. Unstrained dienophiles, although physiologically stable and synthetically accessible, react with tetrazines significantly slower relative to strained variants. Here we report the development of potassium arylethynyltrifluoroborates as unstrained dienophiles for fast, chemically triggered IEDDA reactions. By varying the substituents on the tetrazine (e.g., pyridyl- to benzyl-substituents), cycloaddition kinetics can vary from fast ( = 21 M s) to no reaction with an alkyne-BF dienophile. The reported system was applied to protein labeling both in the test tube and fixed cells and even enabled mutually orthogonal labeling of two distinct proteins.
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