Chimeric small molecules offer a wide array of potential biologicalfunctionalties where metabolic pathways may be redirected towards noncognate
substrates for applications in biological research and
pharmaceutical development. Here we explore the design of a class of
chimeric small molecules known as proteolysis targeting chimeras through
structure-activity relationships (SARs), provide synthetic methodology to
access PROTAC linker variants, and biologically evaluate a suite of
human carbonic anhydrase II (hCAII) degrading chimeric small molecules
through mammalian cell culture and western blotting techniques.