The synthesis of pure Amadori rearrangement products

Article abstract of DOI:10.1002/recl.19951140705

The term "Maillard reaction" is used to describe a complex set of reactions in foods leading to flavour generation and non-enzymatic browning.The first step in this process is the so-called Amadori rearrangement: a reducing saccharide and a peptide fragment react to form an Amadori Rearrangement Product (ARP).To be able to do model studies on flavour generation, gram amounts of pure ARP are required.In the present study, glucose-derived ARPs were synthesised from specifically protected and activated starting compounds.After deprotection and purification, pure ARPs were obtained.This is the first time that ARPs of dipeptides have been isolated.