RT Journal Article T1 Intracellular deprotection reactions mediated by palladium complexes equipped with designed phosphine ligands A1 Martínez-Calvo, Miguel A1 Rodríguez Couceiro, José A1 Destito, Paolo A1 Rodríguez Villar, Jéssica A1 Mosquera Mosquera, Jesús A1 Mascareñas Cid, José Luis K1 Bioorthogonal K1 Discrete complexes K1 Intracellular catalysis K1 Mitochondrial confinement K1 Palladium AB Discrete palladium(II) complexes featuring purposely designed phosphine ligands can promote depropargylation and deallylation reactions in cell lysates. These complexes perform better than other palladium sources, which apparently are rapidly deactivated in such hostile complex media. This good balance between reactivity and stability allows the use of these discrete phosphine palladium complexes in living mammalian cells, whereby they can mediate similar transformations. The presence of a phosphine ligand in the coordination sphere of palladium also provides for the introduction of targeting groups, such as hydrophobic phosphonium moieties, which facilitate the accumulation of the complexes in mitochondria PB American Chemical Society YR 2018 FD 2018-06-01 LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/16860 UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/16860 LA eng NO Martínez-Calvo, M., Couceiro, J., Destito, P., Rodríguez, J., Mosquera, J., & Mascareñas, J. (2018). Intracellular Deprotection Reactions Mediated by Palladium Complexes Equipped with Designed Phosphine Ligands. ACS Catalysis, 6055-6061. doi: 10.1021/acscatal.8b01606 NO We are thankful for the financial support from the Xunta de Galicia (Centro Singular de Investigación de Galicia Acreditación 2016–2019, ED431G/09) and the European Union (European Regional Development Fund–ERDF). We also thank support given by the Spanish Grant No. SAF2016-76689-R, the Xunta de Galicia (Grant Nos. 2015-CP082, ED431C 2017/19), and the European Research Council (Advanced Grant No. 340055). M.M.C. thanks the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad for the Postdoctoral fellowship (No. IJCI-2014-19326). J.R. and J.M. thank Xunta de Galicia and Ministerio of Educacion, respectively, for predoctoral fellowships. The authors thank R. Menaya-Vargas for technical assistance DS Minerva RD 23 abr 2026