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32 kcalmol
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performed the isomerization under the conditions applied in the
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Scheme 2 for reasons of clarity. For similar cross-over experiments in
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33%). Ester 14e was obtained by treatment of the corresponding Li
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after deprotonation (lithium diisopropylamide, LDA) of 6-cyano-1-
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heptene with TEMPO (6 equiv) and (Me3Si)3SiH (4 equiv) in reflux-
ing benzene (0.1m) afforded 14h (97%). Thioether 14i was prepared
from the corresponding chloride[23] in analogy to 1. Sulfone 14j was
available from phenyl-(5-hexenyl)sulfone after deprotonation (LDA)
and subsequent oxidation (CuCl2) in the presence of TEMPO (36%).
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Pseudoprolines (YPro) have been introduced recently as
synthetic proline analogues readily obtained by cycloconden-
sation of the amino acids cysteine, threonine, or serine with
aldehydes or ketones.[1] Their application as structure-dis-
rupting, solubilizing protecting groups in solid-phase peptide
synthesis[2, 3] was followed by conformational investigations
concerning the YPro preceding peptide bond.[4, 5] In fact, the
propensity of the amino acid proline for forming a Xaai 1-Proi
[*] Prof. Dr. M. Mutter, Dipl.-Chem. A. Wittelsberger, Dr. M. Keller,
Dr. L. Patiny
Institute of Organic Chemistry
University of Lausanne
BCH-Dorigny, 1015 Lausanne (Switzerland)
Fax: (41)21-692-39-55
L. Scarpellino, Prof. Dr. H. Acha-Orbea
Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research
Lausanne Branch and Institute of Biochemistry
University of Lausanne ISREC
Ch. des Boveresses 155, 1066 Epalinges (Switzerland)
[**] We are grateful to Dipl.-Biol. Raymond Jacquet for helpful advice.
This work was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation.
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