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Hydrolysis, polarity, and conformational impact of C-terminal partially fluorinated ethyl esters in peptide models
Kubyshkin, Vladimir,Budisa, Nediljko
, p. 2452 - 2457 (2017)
Fluorinated moieties are highly valuable to chemists due to the sensitive NMR detectability of the 19F nucleus. Fluorination of molecular scaffolds can also selectively influence a molecule's polarity, conformational preferences and chemical reactivity, properties that can be exploited for various chemical applications. A powerful route for incorporating fluorine atoms in biomolecules is last-stage fluorination of peptide scaffolds. One of these methods involves esterification of the C-terminus of peptides using a diazomethane species. Here, we provide an investigation of the physicochemical consequences of peptide esterification with partially fluorinated ethyl groups. Derivatives of N-acetylproline are used to model the effects of fluorination on the lipophilicity, hydrolytic stability and on conformational properties. The conformational impact of the 2,2-difluoromethyl ester on several neutral and charged oligopeptides was also investigated. Our results demonstrate that partially fluorinated esters undergo variable hydrolysis in biologically relevant buffers. The hydrolytic stability can be tailored over a broad pH range by varying the number of fluorine atoms in the ester moiety or by introducing adjacent charges in the peptide sequence.
Concurrent esterification and N-acetylation of amino acids with orthoesters: A useful reaction with interesting mechanistic implications
Gibson, Sarah,Romero, Dickie,Jacobs, Hollie K.,Gopalan, Aravamudan S.
scheme or table, p. 6737 - 6740 (2011/02/25)
The concurrent esterification and N-acetylation of amino acids has been studied with triethyl orthoacetate (TEOA) and triethyl orthoformate (TEOF). In a surprising finding, only 1 equiv of TEOA in refluxing toluene was necessary to convert l-proline and l-phenylalanine into the corresponding N-acetyl ethyl esters in good yield. The same transformation using TEOF was not effective. Stereochemical outcome and stoichiometric studies as well as structural variation of the amino acids in this reaction provided unexpected mechanistic insight.
PROLINE-BASED TOPOLOGIC PYRACETAM ANALOGS AND THEIR NOOTROPIC ACTIVITY
Gudasheva, T. A.,Ostrovskaya, R. U.,Maksimova, F. V.,Chuppin, A. V.,Trofimov, S. S.,et al.
, p. 203 - 208 (2007/10/02)
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