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Chemical biology products incorporate the techniques and strengths of chemistry to address fundamentally important questions in biology, medicine, and drug discovery. Sigma-Aldrich® chemical biology products provide solutions, expertise, and industry leadership to advance your research. We offer a market-leading range of innovative products for conjugation strategies, such as azide-alkyne cycloaddition chemistry, as well as synthetic intermediates and building blocks for the synthesis of biomolecules, such as peptides, carbohydrates, and oligonucleotides.   



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Carbohydrates

Our broad portfolio of highly pure carbohydrates are used widely as supplements to cell culture media and as building blocks in glycan and glycoconjugate synthesis.

Click Chemistry Reagents

Our portfolio of click chemistry reagents includes a variety of azides, alkynes, catalysts, and ligands to accelerate your progress in chemical biology, polymer chemistry, bioconjugation, and drug discovery.

This example of click chemistry scheme shows the Copper(I)-catalyzed Azide-Alkyne Cycloaddition (CuAAC)of alkynes to azides to form 1,4-disubsituted-1,2,3-triazole

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Crosslinkers

Our portfolio of linkers and crosslinkers provide structural stability and reliability in protein-protein, protein-peptide, and peptide/protein-small molecule interactions for all your bioconjugation needs.

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Protein Degrader Building Blocks

Our protein degrader building blocks are the easiest way to generate libraries of protein degraders, such as proteolysis targeting chimeras (PROTAC® molecules), that can be screened for effective degradation of your target protein from cells.

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Chemical Biology Tools

Our chemical biology tools incorporate techniques and strengths of chemistry to address fundamentally important research in biology, medicine, and drug discovery. 

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