Dual-Wavelength Gated oxo-Diels-Alder Photoligation

Org Lett. 2021 Apr 2;23(7):2405-2410. doi: 10.1021/acs.orglett.1c00015. Epub 2021 Feb 23.

Abstract

The control of chemical functionalization with orthogonal light stimuli paves the way toward manipulating materials with unprecedented spatiotemporal resolution. To reach this goal, we herein introduce a photochemical reaction system that enables two-color control of covalent ligation via an oxo-Diels-Alder cycloaddition between two separate light-responsive molecular entities: a UV-activated photocaged diene based on ortho-quinodimethanes and a carbonyl dienophile appended to a diarylethene photoswitch, whose reactivity can be modulated upon illumination with UV and visible light.