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Probing the dynamic reversibility and generation <strong>of</strong> dynamic combinatorial<br />

libraries in the presence <strong>of</strong> bacterial model oligopeptides as templating guests<br />

<strong>of</strong> tetra-carbohydrazide macrocycles using electrospray mass spectrometry<br />

Hany F. Nour 1,2 , Tuhidul Islam 1 , Marcelo Fernández-Lahore 1 and Nikolai Kuhnert 1 *<br />

1 School <strong>of</strong> Engineering and Science, Centre for Nano and Functional Materials (NanoFun),<br />

<strong>Jacobs</strong> <strong>University</strong>, 28759 Bremen, Germany<br />

2 National Research Centre, Department <strong>of</strong> Photochemistry, El Behoose Street, P.O. Box 12622,<br />

Dokki, Cairo, Egypt<br />

RATIONALE: Over the past few decades, bacterial resistance against antibiotics has emerged<br />

as a real threat to human health. Accordingly, there is an urgent demand to develop innovative<br />

strategies for discovering new antibiotics. We present the first application <strong>of</strong> tetra-carbohydrazide<br />

cyclophane macrocycles in dynamic combinatorial chemistry (DCC) and molecular<br />

recognition as chiral hosts binding oligopeptides, which mimic bacterial cell wall. This study<br />

introduces an innovative application <strong>of</strong> electrospray ionisation time-<strong>of</strong>-flight mass spectrometry<br />

(ESI-TOF MS) to oligopeptides recognition using DCC.<br />

METHODS: A small dynamic library composed <strong>of</strong> 8 functionalised macrocycles has been<br />

generated in solution and all members were characterised by ESI-TOF MS. We also probed the<br />

dynamic reversibility and mechanism <strong>of</strong> formation <strong>of</strong> tetra-carbohydrazide cyclophanes in realtime<br />

using ESI-TOF MS.<br />

RESULTS: Dynamic reversibility <strong>of</strong> tetra-carbohydrazide cyclophanes is favored under thermodynamic<br />

control. <strong>The</strong> mechanism <strong>of</strong> formation <strong>of</strong> tetra-carbohydrazide cyclophanes involves key<br />

dialdehyde intermediates which have been detected and assigned according to their high<br />

resolution m/z values. Three members <strong>of</strong> the dynamic library bind efficiently in the gas phase to<br />

a selection <strong>of</strong> oligopeptides, unique to bacteria allowing observation <strong>of</strong> host-guest complex ions<br />

in the gas phase.<br />

CONCLUSIONS: We probed the mechanism <strong>of</strong> the [2+2]-cyclocondensation reaction forming<br />

library members, proved dynamic reversibility <strong>of</strong> tetra-carbohydrazide cyclophanes and showed<br />

that complex ions formed between library members and guests can be observed in the gas phase,<br />

allowing the solution <strong>of</strong> an important problem <strong>of</strong> biological interest.<br />

*Correspondence to: N. Kuhnert, School <strong>of</strong> Engineering and Science, <strong>Jacobs</strong> <strong>University</strong>,<br />

P.O. Box 750 561, D-28725 Bremen, Germany, Fax: +49 421 200 3229, Tel: +49 421 200 3120. E-mail:<br />

n.kuhnert@jacobs-university.de<br />

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