Amino acids benzoyl

For the chemical stabilization of peptides, different methods are known, such as the incorporation of unnatural D-amino acids that are not recognized by peptide-digesting proteases. Also, in the case of PDP2, the incorporation of an unnatural amino acid (benzoyl phenylalanine, peptide PDP3) (Figures 4.1 and 4.2) led to enhanced cellular stability [16]. 

David R, Beck-Sickinger AG (2007) Identification of the dimerisation interfece of human interleukin-8 by IL-8-variants containing the photoactivatable amino acid benzoyl-phenylalanine. Eur Biophys J 36 385-391... 

B) Benzoyl derivatives. Most amino-acids can be benzoyl-ated when their solutions in 10% aqueous sodium hydroxide are shaken with a small excess of benzoyl chloride until a clear solution is obtained (Schotten-Baumann reaction, p. 243). Acidification of the solution then precipitates the benzoyl derivative and the excess of benzoic acid, and the mixture must be filtered off, washed with water, and recrystallised (usually from ethanol) to obtain the pure derivative. (M.ps., p. 555 )... 

Benzoates. Dissolve 0-5 g. of the amino acid in 10 ml. of 10 per cent, sodium bicarbonate solution and add 1 g. of benzoyl chloride. Shake the mixture vigorously in a stoppered test-tube remove the stopper from time to time since carbon dioxide is evolved. When the odour of benzoyl chloride has disappeared, acidify with dilute hydrochloric acid to Congo red and filter. Extract the solid with a little cold ether to remove any benzoic acid which may be present. RecrystaUise the benzoyl derivative which remains from hot water or from dilute alcohol. 

The TZ-benzoyl methyl esters of the amino acids valine, alanine, and glycine have been shown to react with 7/-bromosuccinimide to give monobromination products contain-... 

Pinacolone, o-(diphenylphosphino)benzoyl-coordination chemistry, 2, 401 Ping-pong reactions copper(II) complexes, 5, 717 Piperidine, /V-hydroxy-metal complexes, 2, 797 P a values azole ligands, 2, 77 Plant roots amino acids, 2, 962 carboxylic adds, 2,962 Plants... 

Thus, the dianion derived from a-amino acid substitutes the /1-chloride to give the ester of 2-(phenylsulfonyl)ethenyl amino acid and subsequent desulfonylation provides N-(benzoyl)vinylalanine methyl ester (62) (equation 61). The conjugate addition of enolates to methyl styryl sulfone (63) and subsequent intramolecular addition to the carbonyl moiety provide a synthetically valuable method for the construction of bicyclic and tricyclic skeletons52. Desulfonylation of the cyclization product 64 with sodium in ethanol-THF gives the diene 65 in good yield (equation 62). 

Hydroxy-L-prolin is converted into a 2-methoxypyrrolidine. This can be used as a valuable chiral building block to prepare optically active 2-substituted pyrrolidines (2-allyl, 2-cyano, 2-phosphono) with different nucleophiles and employing TiQ as Lewis acid (Eq. 21) [286]. Using these latent A -acylimmonium cations (Eq. 22) [287] (Table 9, No. 31), 2-(pyrimidin-l-yl)-2-amino acids [288], and 5-fluorouracil derivatives [289] have been prepared. For the synthesis of p-lactams a 4-acetoxyazetidinone, prepared by non-Kolbe electrolysis of the corresponding 4-carboxy derivative (Eq. 23) [290], proved to be a valuable intermediate. 0-Benzoylated a-hydroxyacetic acids are decarboxylated in methanol to mixed acylals [291]. By reaction of the intermediate cation, with the carboxylic acid used as precursor, esters are obtained in acetonitrile (Eq. 24) [292] and surprisingly also in methanol as solvent (Table 9, No. 32). Hydroxy compounds are formed by decarboxylation in water or in dimethyl sulfoxide (Table 9, Nos. 34, 35). 

Oxazolones (azlactones) are a form of activated lactones, so they are included in this section. CAL-B is an effective catalyst for the DKR of various racemic four-substituted-5 (4H)-oxazolones, in the presence of an alcohol, yielding optically active N-benzoyl amino acid esters as illustrated in Figure 6.24 [40]. Enantioselective biotransformations of lactides [72,73] and thiolactones ]74] have also been reported. 

Although these Boc derivatives underwent methylation with poor selectivity (compared to 3-amino-N-benzoyl butanoates [106] and Z-protected methyl 4-phen-yl-3-aminobutanoate [107]), epimers were succesfully separated by preparative HPLC or by flash chromatography. However, saponification of the methyl ester caused partial epimerization of the a-stereocenter and a two-step (epimerization free) procedure involving titanate-mediated transesterification to the corresponding benzyl esters and hydrogenation was used instead to recover the required Boc-y9 -amino acids in enantiomerically pure form [104, 105]. N-Boc-protected amino acids 19 and 20 for incorporation into water-soluble /9-peptides were pre-... 

These amino acids were initially synthesized by asymmetric aminomethylation of optically pure (R)- and (S)-N-Acyl-4-phenyhnethyl)oxazolidin-2-ones 52 through TiCVenolates (Evans methodology [135]) with (benzoylamino)methylchloride or benzyl N-(methoxymethyl)carbamate [66, 97-99, 104]. Hydrolytic removal of the auxiliary yielded the N-protected (benzoyl or Z) amino acid 54. Deprotection afforded the free amino acid which was converted to the required Boc- or Fmoc-pro-tected derivatives (Scheme 2.7). 

The catechol-type ligand appears to be restricted to siderochromes derived from prokaryotic microorganisms. Klebsiella oxytoca, an organism closely related to members of the genus Aerobacter, forms the 2,3-dihy-droxy-N-benzoyl derivates of serine and threonine in three day cultures (72). It is not known if the latter amino acid occurs in trimers but examination of space-filling CPK models does indicate that enterobactin could accomodate a methyl substituent on the carbon of the serine residue. Catechols occur in higher protist organisms but their formation... 

Peptidic photoprobes can be based on the photoreactive amino acid p-benzoyl-L-phenylalanine inserted into a peptide in place of a natural aromatic residue by peptide synthesis [65] or by manipulation of the genetic code [66]. The use of p-benzoyl-L-phenylalanine for this purpose is not new, but the nature of peptide probes naturally offers opportunities for the location of linkage sites by proteomic analysis [67]. 

In the chemical communication many peptide-protein (e.g., peptide hormone agonist) or protein-protein signaling interaction take place. Various photoreactive amino acids, e.g., azido-phenyalanines (Apa, TFApa) [40, 41], benzoyl-phenyalanines (Bpa,p-OH-Bpa) [41,42],trifluorometil-diazirine-phenylalanine (TMDPhe) [43], were developed (Fig. 3), which can be incorporated into any places in peptide sequences by standard solid-phase synthetic techniques. 

Using the ethyl 1 -thio derivative (97) of 2,3,4-tri-O-benzoyl-D-xylose, the fully protected and free O-glycopeptides 99 and 100, having the TV-terminal amino acid sequence 3 to 6 (98) of the protein core of a proteodermatan sulfate have been prepared (69). 

Ih this latter process an a/3-unsaturated a-benzoylamino-acid is formed and is converted into the a-amino-acid by hydrogenation and subsequent removal of the benzoyl group by hydrolysis. 

FMF Chen and NL Benoiton. Diisopropylethylamine eliminates dipeptide formation during acylation of amino acids using benzoyl chloride and some alkyl chlorofor-mates. Can J Chem 65, 1224, 1987. 

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