Synthesis of A Fluorescent PNA Monomer Containing 5-((9<b> <i>H</i> </b>-Fluoren-2-YL)Ethynyl)Uracil
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Pyrimidine nucleobases bearing 5-phenylethynyl substitution represent compact and intrinsically fluorescent nucleobases. Such nucleobases are capable of selective recognition of a complementary base and may fluorimetrically report on hybridization events. Our past work has demonstrated that the fluorescence of 5-phenylethynyluracils is sensitive to substitution on the phenyl ring, however these are relatively weak fluorophores. We currently are pursuing the functionalization of the phenyl group of these modified nucleobases in order to further improve their fluorescence response, increase their aqueous solubility and stabilize hybrids formed with complementary nucleic acids. As an example of this work, we have synthesized the 5-((9H-fluoren-2-yl)ethynyl)uracil PNA monomer that will be incorporated into oligomers using Fmoc-based chemistry. Initial evaluation of the fluorescence of the 5-((9H-fluoren-2-yl)ethynyl)uracil derivative shows that the fluorescence intensity is approximately 50 times greater than a similar 5-phenylethynyluracil derivative when under identical conditions.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".