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ReviewAngewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)2025

Synthesis and Application of Bioactive N-Functionalized Aziridines.

Hao Tan, Samya Samanta, Nan Qiu, Alexander Adibekian, David C Powers

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Review in Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Photochemical Cascade Nitrile Activation via a Carbene-Nitrene Relay.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2026
    Article
  3. Aziridination-Enabled Structural and Quantitative Lipidomics.Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry · 2026
    Review
  4. Aziridination of a Single Carbon Atom in Alkenes via Energy Transfer Catalysis.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2026
    Article
  5. Article
  6. Article
  7. Bifunctional Aziridines from Photochemically Generated FSOAngewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2026
    Article
  8. Synthesis and Application of Bioactive N-Functionalized Aziridines.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2025
    Review
4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Hao TanDepartment of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843, USA.
Samya SamantaDepartment of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843, USA.
Nan QiuDepartment of Chemistry, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60607, USA.
Alexander AdibekianDepartment of Chemistry, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60607, USA.
David C PowersDepartment of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3717-2001

Funding

Metal-Free Electrocatalysis for Fine-Chemical SynthesisR35GM138114 · NIGMS · TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY · PI David C Powers · 2020 to 2026
$2.2M
Probing conformational changes by protein surface azidationR01GM145886 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO · PI ADIBEKIAN, ALEXANDER · 2022 to 2025
$1.6M
Mapping Dynamic Changes in Protein Interactome using Proximity Labeling with High Temporal ResolutionR61CA297953 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO · PI Alexander Adibekian, ANDREI V KARGINOV · 2025 to 2026
$610k
Enveda BiosciencesNCI NIH HHS R61 CA297953NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM145886NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM138114NIH HHS R35GM138114NIH HHS R61CA297953NIH HHS RO1GM145886NSF Graduate Research Fellowships ProgramReba and Nat Endowed FellowshipWelch Foundation A-1907
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Aziridines-three-membered nitrogen heterocycles that engage in strain-accelerated ring opening chemistry-are not common functional groups in bioactive natural products. As such, the discovery and optimization of predictable and general methods for the construction of aziridines is critical to the development, evaluation, and optimization of small molecules that contain aziridines. In this review, we discuss modern synthetic strategies for the construction of aziridines. Synthetic methods are categorized based on the synthetic logic used to assemble the aziridine ring: 1) Addition of nitrene equivalents to olefins, 2) addition of carbene equivalents to imines, and 3) intramolecular cyclization chemistry. Special emphasis is given to methods that allow modular control over the identity of the exocyclic nitrogen valence, which directly impacts the electrophilicity, and thus biological activity, of the resulting aziridines. After describing the state of the art in aziridine synthesis, we discuss established and emerging biological applications of aziridine-containing small molecules, including application as proteomics probes that enable liganding of nonstandard amino acid residues and application in lipidomics. Finally, extant synthetic challenges that must be addressed to realize the full potential of aziridine-based small molecules are described.

Indexed as

AziridinesCyclizationMolecular StructureAziridinesAziridinesBioactive small moleculesCatalysisLipidomicsProteomics

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PMID40844185
PMCPMC12559475

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