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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jul 20.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Rev Chem. 2020 Jul 21;4:476–489. doi: 10.1038/s41570-020-0205-0

Table 1.

Tuning transformations for biological application. Bioorthogonal chemistries largely fall into two categories: polar reactions and cycloadditions. Examples of how limitations spurred the development of new reactions are shown.

Reaction type Overall transformation Early example Tuned variant
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