Patent ID: 8361442

Claim:
A compound of formula: R N1 R N2 N—O-L 1 ; wherein R N1 and R N2 are independently hydrogen, an aliphatic, alicyclic, heteroaliphatic, heterocyclic, aryl or heteroaryl moiety, or a nitrogen protecting group such that the nitrogen atom taken together with the protecting group forms a moiety selected from the group consisting of a carbamate, an amide, a cyclic imide, a N-alkyl amine, and N-aryl amines, an imine, and an enamine, or R N1 and R N2 , taken together with the nitrogen atom to which they are attached, form a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic or heteroaryl moiety; and L 1 is a moiety of formula: —(CR L1 R L2 ) p -Q, wherein p is an integer from 0-6, R L1 and R L2 are independently hydrogen, an aliphatic, alicyclic, heteroaliphatic, heterocyclic, aryl or heteroaryl moiety or WR W1 wherein W is O, S, NH, CO, SO 2 , COO, CONH, and R W1 is hydrogen, an aliphatic, alicyclic, heteroaliphatic, heterocyclic, aryl, heteroaryl, alkylaryl or alkylheteroaryl moiety, and Q is