Tetrazoles are doubly unsaturated five-membered aromatic heterocycles consisting of one carbon atom and four nitrogen atoms. Tetrazole derivatives are a major class of heterocyclic compounds that are important for medicinal chemistry and drug design because of their not only isosteric properties with carboxylic acid and amide moieties, but also metabolic stability and other beneficial physicochemical properties.
Silanes are a series of silicon substitutes for carbon alkanes, which consisting of multiple silicon atoms linked to each other as the main chain and hydrogen atoms or other chemical elements linked with the main chain. Silanes are versatile chemicals used in the modification of SPR sensor surfaces. In particular, the silane molecules, such as 3-mercaptopropyl trimethoxy silane, are convenient for use as linkers in surface modification of SPR sensors.