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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Dec 16.
Published in final edited form as: ACS Chem Biol. 2016 Oct 26;11(12):3233–3244. doi: 10.1021/acschembio.6b00810

Figure 4.

Figure 4

Diazo compounds for covalent modification of proteins. (A) Putative mechanism for the esterification of carboxylic acids with a diazo compound,134 and its application to the bioreversible labeling of a protein.128,129 Diazo compound I is optimized for protein esterification.129 (B) Putative mechanism of a diazo carbenoid insertion reaction, and its application to the site-specific modification of a proximal amino-acid residue.161