Category Archives: Life Science Applications

Glycosidase Inhibitors and Fluorous Tags

The use of fluorine to modulate physical and biological properties of molecules is well established in drug discovery, either for therapeutics or diagnostics.  Usually this means a single fluorine substitution or a trifluoromethyl for a methyl group.  Occasionally, one might … Continue reading

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Carbohydrate Research in Action

We’ve published quite a number of posts in F-Blog regarding the synthesis and purification of oligosaccharides using fluorous methods.  The justification for the development of many synthetic methods, including fluorous carbohydrate synthesis, is that the molecules produced can then be … Continue reading

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Glycosphingolipid Analysis using Fluorous Tags

Glycosphingolipids (GSLs) are an important class of molecules which have been associated with several cellular functions including antigen activity, cell adhesion, and signal transduction.  As the name suggests these molecules consist of a glycan portion and a lipid portion.  Study … Continue reading

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Fluorous Photoaffinity Labeling

Late last year Prof. Qisheng Zhang at the University of North Carolina published a paper describing his group’s efforts at developing fluorous diazirines as photoaffinity labeling reagents.  For more details on Prof. Zhang’s work, you can view the presentation he … Continue reading

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H1N1, Carbohydrates, and Microarrays

The study of carbohydrates is of great interest since they are one of the most abundant of cell surface molecules and are, therefore, important players in many intercellular interactions.  An example from current events which illustrates the role of carbohydrates … Continue reading

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