Publications

Below is a highlight of select key publications.

  • “Portrait of a Family of Highly Stabilizing and Selective Guanine Quadruplex Platinum(II)-Based Binders” Caitlin E. Miron, Mickey Chen, Jean-Louis Mergny, Anne Petitjean*, Chem. Eur. J. 2022, 28, e202103839. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202103839
  • Going Platinum to the Tune of a Remarkable Guanine Quadruplex Binder: Solution- and Solid-State Investigations”, Caitlin E. Miron, Laura van Staalduinen, Alana M. Rangaswamy, Mickey Chen, Yushi Liang, Zongchao Jia, Jean-Louis Mergny, Anne Petitjean*, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60, 2500. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202012520
  • “Closing the loop : Triazolylpyridine coordination drives the self-assembly of metallomacrocycles with tunable topologies for small-molecule and guanine-quadruplex recognition”, C. E. Miron, M. R. Colden Leung, E. I. Kennedy, O. Fleischel, M. Ashraf Khorasani, N. Wu, J.-L. Mergny, A. Petitjean*, Chem. Eur. J. 2018, 24, 18718. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201803731

  • “Systematic study of the synthesis and coordination of 2-(1,2,3-triazol-4-yl)-pyridine to Fe(II), Ni(II) and Zn(II); ion-induced folding to helicates, mesocates and larger architectures, and application to magnetism and self-selection”, N. Wu, C. F. C. Melan, K. A. Stevenson, O. Fleischel, H. Guo, F. Habib, R. J. Holmberg, M. Murugesu, N. J. Mosey, H. Nierengarten, A. Petitjean*, Dalton Trans. 2015, 44, 14991. https://doi.org/10.1039/C5DT00233H

  • “Controlled synthesis and alkaline earth ion binding of switchable formamidoxime-based crown ether analogs”, Y. Yan, W. Zhao, G. V. Bhagavathy, A. Faurie, N. J. Mosey, A. Petitjean*, Chem. Commun. 2012, 48, 7829. https://doi.org/10.1039/C2CC33090C

  • “Telomere targeting with a new G4 ligand enhances radiation-induced killing of human glioblastoma cells”, B. Evrard, P. Merle, A. Petitjean, J.-M. Lehn, M.P. Teulade-Fichou, E. Chautard, A. De Cian, L. Guittat, P. L. T. Tran, J.-L. Mergny, P. Verrelle*, A. Tchirkov, Mol. Cancer Ther. 2011, 10, 1784. https://doi.org/10.1158/1535-7163.MCT-10-0664

  • “pH-Responsive molecular tweezers”, J. Leblond, H. Gao, A. Petitjean*, J.-C. Leroux*, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, 8544. https://doi.org/10.1021/ja103153t

Family portrait

Angew2021 TOC

Helicate self-selection

crown ether analog

Molecular tweezers