Heterobifunctional chemical linkers useful in protein degraders and other medicinal chemistry applications are provided. The heterobifunctional linkers include alkyne-piperidine and alkane-piperidine linkers; alkane- piperazine linkers; alkanamino PEGylated linkers; dipiperazine linkers; piperazine-pyridine/pyrimidine-alkyne linkers; pyridine-PEG-piperazine linkers and pyrimidine-piperazine-PEG linkers. Also provided are combinations of the provided linkers with a ligand that targets a degradation pathway, such as an E3 ubiquitin ligase enzyme.