Tetrathiatriarylmethyl (TAM) radicals are favourite spin labels for electron paramagnetic resonance imaging (EPRI). In this work, we report a straightforward synthesis of new TAM radicals bound to an Arg-Gly-Asp (RGD)-peptido-mimetic known to be a cell-targeting agent. These new radicals are stable in solution, and sensitive to oxygen, and their experimental EPR data is consistent with density functional theory (DFT) calculations.
Driesschaert, B., Levêque, P., Gallez, B., & Marchand-Brynaert, J. (2014). Tetrathiatriarylmethyl radicals conjugated to an RGD-peptidomimetic. European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2014(36), 8077-8084. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejoc.201403049 (Original work published 2014)