Azido-PEG20-alcohol is a heterobifunctional polyethylene glycol (PEG) linker featuring a terminal azide group and a terminal hydroxyl group, providing a flexible, hydrophilic chain of approximately twenty ethylene glycol units. The ether-rich PEG segment confers conformational mobility and improves solubility, while the azide handle enables efficient bioorthogonal conjugation strategies, most commonly copper-free azide–alkyne cycloaddition (“click” chemistry) to attach the linker to alkyne-bearing ligands or PROTAC warheads. The terminal alcohol can serve as a convenient functional group for further derivatization or as a site for coupling to other building blocks, allowing modular assembly of degraders. In PROTAC design, such linkers help tune spatial separation between the target-binding moiety and the E3 ligase-recruiting ligand, which can strongly influence ternary complex formation and degradation potency. This product is therefore valuable for researchers constructing and optimizing targeted protein degradation constructs with improved synthetic flexibility and aqueous compatibility.
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Azido-PEG20-alcohol is a polyethylene glycol (PEG)-based linker bearing a terminal azide group, enabling modular attachment to targeting ligands in PROTAC construction. Its flexible, hydrophilic PEG scaffold supports favorable linker solvation and conformational mobility, while the azide handle provides a reliable chemical “click” site for conjugation. The subsequent points describe its structural features and practical reactivity considerations for assembling PROTACs in research workflows.
Structure: The linker consists of a PEG ether chain terminating in an azide functional group and a primary alcohol. It contains multiple ether linkages that confer flexibility and water compatibility, along with an azide moiety suitable for bioorthogonal conjugation. Overall, it is an amphiphilic, polar organic scaffold.
Reactivity: The terminal azide enables copper-catalyzed azide–alkyne cycloaddition with appropriately functionalized alkynes, or strain-promoted azide–alkyne cycloaddition when using cyclooctynes. Typical conjugation is performed under mild, aqueous or mixed-solvent conditions compatible with sensitive ligands, using Cu(I) sources and stabilizing ligands for the copper route. Solvent choice and pH should be optimized to maintain ligand integrity and maximize coupling efficiency.
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