文摘
A reversible boronate鈥揹iol interaction provides a versatile synthetic platform for molecular recognitions whose binding specificity can be molecularly tailored. We found that boronate derivatives with relatively strong acidity generally undergo a diphosphate-specific recognition among other phosphates under weakly acidic pH conditions, a feature relevant to DNA sequencing. 11B and 31P NMR studies identified 鈥渢etrahedral boronate and divalent diphosphate鈥?as a pair responsible for forming a 1:1 stoichiometric complex, which manifests as a unique pH-dependent stability.