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A pH-dependent cyanate reactivity model: Application to preparative N-carbamoylation of amino acids
Taillades, Jacques,Boiteau, Laurent,Beuzelin, Isabelle,Lagrille, Olivier,Biron, Jean-Philippe,Vayaboury, Willy,Vandenabeele-Trambouze, Odile,Giani, Olivia,Commeyras, Auguste
, p. 1247 - 1254 (2001)
Recent developments in peptide synthesis have underlined the importance of optimising, on a preparative scale, the N-carbamoylation of amino acids by aqueous cyanate. To this purpose, a theoretical model of aqueous cyanate reactivity was designed. The parameters of the model were evaluated, for various pH and temperatures, from a critical survey of the literature, together with additional experimental data. Computer-simulated kinetics based on this model showed the reaction efficiency to be significantly dependent on pH, and suggested optimum conditions to be moderate temperatures and pH 8.5-9. Discussion of the practical convenience of these theoretical results led us to prefer 40-50 °C and a pH range of 7-8 as reaction conditions, thus maintaining reaction times within a few hours. Various N-carbamoyl amino acids (ureido derivatives of glycine, L-valine, L-alanine, L-leucine, DL-methionine, Nε-trifluoroacetyl-L-lysine, β-alanine) were thus successfully synthesised on the gram to kilogram scales.
