In order to optimize the performance of the AMBRI(TM) biosensor (Nature 1997, 387, 580), a variety of hydrophilic linkers between the hydrophobic bilayer membrane and the gold surface have been synthesized. The principal components are prepared from phytanyl hemisuccinate, which is linked by repeating ethylene glycol or propylene glycol units to a second succinic acid unit. The syntheses of analogous substances in which the ester links are replaced by amide and by ether links are also described.
In order to optimize the performance of the AMBRI(TM) biosensor (Nature 1997, 387, 580), a variety of hydrophilic linkers between the hydrophobic bilayer membrane and the gold surface have been synthesized. The principal components are prepared from phytanyl hemisuccinate, which is linked by repeating ethylene glycol or propylene glycol units to a second succinic acid unit. The syntheses of analogous substances in which the ester links are replaced by amide and by ether links are also described.
A Convenient Synthetic Route to Differentially Functionalized Long Chain Polyethylene Glycols
作者:Christopher J. Burns、Leslie D. Field、Kikuko Hashimoto、Brian J. Petteys、Damon D. Ridley、K. R. A. Samankumara Sandanayake
DOI:10.1080/00397919908086236
日期:1999.7
A convenient and efficient synthetic route to differentially functionalized polyethylene glycols (PEGs) starting from cheap commercially available materials is reported. Selectively protected triethylene glycol or tetraethylene glycol have been reacted with a second PEG bearing both a protecting group and a leaving group.