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A novel high-yield synthesis of aminoacyl p-nitroanilines and aminoacyl 7-amino-4-methylcoumarins: Important synthons for the synthesis of chromogenic/fluorogenic protease substrates

  • Xinghua Wu,
  • Yu Chen,
  • Herve Aloysius and
  • Longqin Hu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 1030–1035, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.117

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  • removal of the Boc protecting group and oxidation of the free amino group to the nitro group [13]. This method, however, is not applicable to methionine, tyrosine, tryptophan and cysteine, all of which are sensitive to the oxidation conditions used. As an alternative, Nα-protected amino acids were used to
  • properties of the azide [20]. Furthermore, the indole unit of tryptophan did not need protection and was well-tolerated without affecting the yield of the amidation reaction (Table 1, entry 7). This newly developed selenocarboxylate/azide amidation strategy also provided easy access to aminoacyl-AMC
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Published 27 Jul 2011

Photoinduced electron-transfer chemistry of the bielectrophoric N-phthaloyl derivatives of the amino acids tyrosine, histidine and tryptophan

  • Axel G. Griesbeck,
  • Jörg Neudörfl and
  • Alan de Kiff

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 518–524, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.60

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  • and tryptophan 8–10 was studied with respect to photoinduced electron-transfer (PET) induced decarboxylation and Norrish II bond cleavage. Whereas exclusive photodecarboxylation of the tyrosine substrate 8 was observed, the histidine compound 9 resulted in a mixture of histamine and preferential
  • Norrish cleavage. The tryptophan derivative 10 is photochemically inert and shows preferential decarboxylation only when induced by intermolecular PET. Keywords: amino acids; decarboxylation; electron transfer; photochemistry; phthalimides; Introduction Phthalimides are versatile electron acceptors in
  • cysteine and S-methyl cysteine derivatives [8]. Other proteinogenic amino acids that, in principle, should also be able to show bielectrophoric behavior with aromatic side chains similar to phenylalanine are tyrosine, histidine and tryptophan. The photochemistry of the phthalimide derivatives of these
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Published 26 Apr 2011

An overview of the key routes to the best selling 5-membered ring heterocyclic pharmaceuticals

  • Marcus Baumann,
  • Ian R. Baxendale,
  • Steven V. Ley and
  • Nikzad Nikbin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 442–495, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.57

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  • hydrazine and a cyclic 1,3-dione derivative could be utilised to prepare the desired fully substituted tricyclic core of ondansetron (Scheme 27) [37]. A different approach was used in the synthesis of the phosphodiesterase inhibitor tadalafil (132, Cialis) starting from commercially available (D)-tryptophan
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Published 18 Apr 2011
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  • recognition of polymer attached tryptophan with CD [16]. In this paper we now wish to report the chiral recognition of polymeric attached phenylalanine (Phe) with randomly-methylated-β-CD (RAMEB-CD) and native β-CD. Results and Discussion Copolymers 3D and 3L comprising N-isopropylacrylamide (NIPAAm), N
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Published 14 Feb 2011

Molecular recognition of organic ammonium ions in solution using synthetic receptors

  • Andreas Späth and
  • Burkhard König

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2010, 6, No. 32, doi:10.3762/bjoc.6.32

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  • guests such as NEA (20a) or phenylglycinol (20c). For tryptophan (81b) the best results were achieved with selection factors of one enantiomer over the other up to 13 fold, corresponding to over 90% ee. This is explained by π–π-interactions. Besides chiral substituents on the crown ether ring, chiral
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Published 06 Apr 2010

A review of new developments in the Friedel–Crafts alkylation – From green chemistry to asymmetric catalysis

  • Magnus Rueping and
  • Boris J. Nachtsheim

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2010, 6, No. 6, doi:10.3762/bjoc.6.6

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  • . Other allylating reagents, such as β-methyl-, α,α-, and γ,γ-dimethylallyl alcohols or cinnamyl alcohol could also be used in this reaction. Additionally, high selectivity towards the linear allylated indoles was observed. Surprisingly, N-allylation did not occur. With L-tryptophan methyl ester (73) as
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Published 20 Jan 2010

The first preparative solution phase synthesis of melanotan II

  • Vladimir V. Ryakhovsky,
  • Georgy A. Khachiyan,
  • Nina F. Kosovova,
  • Elena F. Isamiddinova and
  • Andrey S. Ivanov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2008, 4, No. 39, doi:10.3762/bjoc.4.39

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  • γ-carboxy group of aspartic acid, led to a cyclic intermediate. Appending N-acetylnorleucine concluded the assembly of melanotan II molecule. Protection of the lateral groups in arginine and tryptophan was omitted for atom and step economy reasons. The total synthesis of melanotan II was
  • . Despite concerns that the indole nitrogen would be susceptible to attack by tert-butyl cation generated upon Boc-group cleavage, we found that protection of indole nitrogen in tryptophan could be omitted from this process without substantial deterioration of the product yield or purity. That allowed us to
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Published 30 Oct 2008
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