Amino acids separation amide

KANO H., YONEYAMA T. and KUMAZAWA K. 1981. Emission spectrometric analysis of the amino acids and amides in plant tissues separated by thin layer chromatography. Analytical Biochemistry, 67, 327-331,... 

This procedure is restricted mainly to aminodicarboxyhc acids or diaminocarboxyhc acids. In the case of neutral amino acids, the amino group or carboxyl group must be protected, eg, by A/-acylation, esterification, or amidation. This protection of the racemic amino acid and deprotection of the separated enantiomers add stages to the overall process. Furthermore, this procedure requires a stoichiometric quantity of the resolving agent, which is then difficult to recover efficiendy. Practical examples of resolution by this method have been pubUshed (50,51). 

Proline is the only amino acid in Table 27.1 that is a secondary amine, and its presence in a peptide chain introduces an amide nitrogen that has no hydrogen available for hydrogen bonding. This disrupts the network of hydrogen bonds and divides the peptide into two separate regions of a helix. The presence of proline is often associated with a bend in the peptide chain. 

As expected from the design of the experiment, the HPLC column packed with CSP 14 containing all 36 members of the library with tt-basic substituents separated 7t-acid substituted amino acid amides. Although encouraging since it suggested the presence of at least one useful selector, this result did not reveal which of the numerous selectors on CSP 14 was the most powerful one. Therefore, a deconvolution process involving the preparation of series of beads with smaller numbers of attached selectors was used. The approach is schematically outlined in Fig. 3-17. 

Tasks (1) and (2) are relatively easy to accomplish. The sample is first heated with hydrochloric acid to break all of the peptide linkages (amide bonds) in the protein. The resulting solution is then passed through a chromatographic column (recall the discussion on pp. 5-6 in Chapter 1). This separates the different amino acids and allows you to determine their identities and concentrations. 

Alternatively, to avoid difficult separation of diastereomers 18a and epi-18a, the Fmoc-y9 -amino acid of unlike configuration 26 can be obtained as a single dia-stereoisomer in a three-step reaction sequence via conjugate addition of the Li-amide derived from (S)-N-benzyl-l-phenylethylamine (Davies methodology [113]) to tert-butyl tiglate [105] (Scheme 2.3). 

A simple and rapid method of separating optical isomers of amino acids on a reversed-phase plate, without using impregnated plates or a chiral mobile phase, was described by Nagata et al. [27]. Amino acids were derivatized with /-fluoro-2,4-dinitrophenyl-5-L-alanine amide (FDAA or Marfey s reagent). Each FDAA amino acid can be separated from the others by two-dimensional elution. Separation of L- and D-serine was achieved with 30% of acetonitrile solvent. The enantiomers of threonine, proline, and alanine were separated with 35% of acetonitrile solvent and those of methionine, valine, phenylalanine, and leucine with 40% of acetonitrile solvent. The spots were scraped off the plate after the... 

Unusual amino acids include a class of unnatural a-amino acids such as phenylalanine, tyrosine, alanine, tryptophan, and glycine analogs, and f)-amino acid analogs containing 1,2,3,4-tetrahydroisoquinoline, tetraline, l,2,3,4-tetrahydro-2-carboline, cyclopentane, cyclohexane, cyclohexene, bicyclo[2.2.1]heptane or heptene skeletons. Different selectors were exploited for the separation of unusual amino acids, most of the production being made by Peter and coworkers teicoplanin [41, 56, 84, 90, 93, 124, 141-144], ristocetin A [33, 94, 145, 146], and TAG [56, 147]. Enantiomeric and diastereomeric separations of cyclic -substituted a-amino acids were reported by other authors on a teicoplanin CSP [88, 89], Ester and amide derivatives of tryptophan and phenylalanine were recently analyzed on a Me-TAG CSP [58],... 

Armstrong et al. ° first introduced chiral stationary phases based on macrocyclic antibiotics. Vancomycin, ristocetin A, teicoplanin, avoparcin, rifamycin B and thiostrepton are used as chiral selectors. They posses a broad enantiorecognition range, similar to protein based CSPs. However, CSPs based on macrocyclic antibiotics show higher stability and capacities.Underivatized amino acids, N-derivatized amino-acids, acidic compounds, neutrals, amides, esters and amines can be separated.The first four of the above-mentioned chiral selectors appear to have the largest enantiorecognition range.The selectors can also be derivatized to obtain different enantioselectivities. 

Peptides and proteins are composed of a-amino acids linked by amide bonds (see Section 13.1). Their properties, for example the ability of enzymes to catalyse biochemical reactions, are dependent upon the degree of ionization of various acidic and basic side-chains at the relevant pH. This aspect will be discussed in more detail in Section 13.4, but, here, let us consider a simple amino acid dissolved in water at pH 7.0. An a-amino acid has an acidic carboxylic acid group and a basic amine group. Both of these entities need to be treated separately. 

Enantiomer separation on optically active amino acid, dipeptide, diamide and amide phases by association via hydrogen bonding. " ... 

Food protein and peptides are a very heterogeneous group of compounds containing amino acids linked by an amide bond. The separation line between large peptides and small proteins is not well defined but usually it is assumed that peptides contain less than 100 residues (MW <10,000Da) [104],... 

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