Sets of electrophilic probes are generally prepared using a narrow toolkit of robust reactions, which tends to limit both their structural and functional diversity. A unified synthesis of skeletally-diverse sulfonyl fluorides was developed that relied upon photoredox-catalysed dehydrogenative couplings between hetaryl sulfonyl fluorides and hydrogen donor building blocks. A set of 32 diverse probes was prepared, and then screened against Trypanosoma brucei. Four of the probes were found to have sub-micromolar anti-trypanosomal activity. A chemical proteomic approach, harnessing an alkynylated analogue and broad-spectrum fluorophosphonate tools, provided insights into the observed anti-trypanosomal activity, which likely stems from covalent modification of multiple protein targets. It is envisaged that the unified diversity-oriented approach may enable the discovery of electrophilic probes that have value in the elucidation of biological and biomedical mechanisms.
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