TY - JOUR A1 - Zaitsev-Doyle, John J. A1 - Puchert, Anke A1 - Pfeifer, Yannik A1 - Yan, Hao A1 - Yorke, Briony A. A1 - Müller-Werkmeister, Henrike A1 - Uetrecht, Charlotte A1 - Rehbein, Julia A1 - Huse, Nils A1 - Pearson, Arwen R. A1 - Sans, Marta T1 - Synthesis and characterisation of alpha-carboxynitrobenzyl photocaged l-aspartates for applications in time-resolved structural biology JF - RSC Advances N2 - We report a new synthetic route to a series of a-carboxynitrobenzyl photocaged L-aspartates for application in time-resolved structural biology. The resulting compounds were characterised in terms of UV/Vis absorption properties, aqueous solubility and stability, and photocleavage rates (tau = ms to ms) and quantum yields (phi = 0.05 to 0.14). Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1039/c9ra00968j SN - 2046-2069 VL - 9 IS - 15 SP - 8695 EP - 8699 PB - Royal Society of Chemistry CY - Cambridge ER -