Merrifield peptide amides

EDC FDPP Fmoc HOBt LiHMDS MAMP MCPBA MeOPEG NCA NMP PAL PASP PBP PEG SASRIN TEA TFA TMAD N-Ethyl-N - [ 3 - (dimethy lamino)propy 1] -c arbodiimide hydrochloride Pentafluoro phenyldiphenyl phosphate 9 -Fluoreny lme thoxy c arbony 1 Hydroxybenzotriazol Lithium hexamethyldisilazane Merrifield, alpha methoxy phenyl resin w-Chloroperbenzoic acid Methoxy polyethylene glycol /V-Carboxv a-aminoacid anhydride /V - M e t h v 1 pyrrol i do n e Peptide amide linker Polymer assisted solution phase Penicillin-binding proteins Polyethylene glycol Super acid sensitive resin Triethylamine Trifluoroacetic acid Tetramethylamine azodicarboxylate. 

The recommended procedure for the synthesis of peptide amides is to use a resin (e.g., MBHA) that yields amides directly upon cleavage with HE Ammonolysis can be used to give amides of peptides on Merrifield or HMBA resins. Anunonolysis can also probably be used with PAM resins. 

Peptide synthesis requires the use of selective protecting groups. An N-protected amino acid with a free carboxyl group is coupled to an O-protected amino acid with a free amino group in the presence of dicydohexvlcarbodi-imide (DCC). Amide formation occurs, the protecting groups are removed, and the sequence is repeated. Amines are usually protected as their teit-butoxy-carbonyl (Boc) derivatives, and acids are protected as esters. This synthetic sequence is often carried out by the Merrifield solid-phase method, in which the peptide is esterified to an insoluble polymeric support. 

CC Yang, RB Merrifield. The P-phenacyl ester as a temporary protecting group to minimize cyclic amide formation during subsequent treatment of aspartyl peptides with HF. J Org Chem 41, 1032, 1976. 

Formation of an amide bond (peptide bond) will take place if an amine and not an alcohol attacks the acyl enzyme. If an amino acid (acid protected) is used, reactions can be continued to form oligo peptides. If an ester is used the process will be a kinetically controlled aminolysis. If an amino acid (amino protected) is used it will be reversed hydrolysis and if it is a protected amide or peptide it will be transpeptidation. Both of the latter methods are thermodynamically controlled. However, synthesis of peptides using biocatalytic methods (esterase, lipase or protease) is only of limited importance for two reasons. Synthesis by either of the above mentioned biocatalytic methods will take place in low water media and low solubility of peptides with more than 2-3 amino acids limits their value. Secondly, there are well developed non-biocatalytic methods for peptide synthesis. For small quantities the automated Merrifield method works well. 

It is the C-terminal amino acid that is anchored to the solid support in the preparation of peptides by the Merrifield method. Refer to the structure of oxytocin in Figure 27.8 of the text and note that oxytocin, in fact, has no free carboxyl groups all the acyl groups of oxytocin appear as amide functions. Thus, the carboxyl terminus of oxytocin has been modified by conversion to an amide. 

NHCH2COH, which in oxytocin has been modified so that it appears as —NHCH2CNH2. Therefore, attach glycine to the solid support in the first step of the Merrifield synthesis. The carboxyl group can be modified to the required amide after all the amino acid residues have been added and the completed peptide is removed from the solid support. 

Solid-phase methodology was established in 1963 in pioneering work conducted by Merrifield in the area of peptide synthesis [19]. Interest in this synthetic strategy continues unabated to this day, particularly in connection with the production of new active components for drugs, since the repetitive amide bond formation performed in automated synthesisers lends itself ideally to the construction of extensive substance libraries by combinatorial chemistry [20]. 

Use of DCC as a Peptide Coupling Agent The final reaction needed for the Merrifield procedure is the peptide bond-forming condensation. When a mixture of an amine and an acid is treated with 7V,iV -dicyclohcxylcarbodiimidc (abbreviated DCC), the amine and the acid couple to form an amide. The molecule of water lost in this condensation converts DCC to N,N -dicyclohexyl urea (DCU). 

The phenol-sulfide SC linker 1.28 (85) attached to Merrifield resin has been used to support peptides, with the exclusion of S-containing aminoacids. Oxidation of the sulfur atom with hydrogen peroxide increases the reactivity of the linker towards amines and allows the facile cleavage of the ester bond to release the final compounds into solution as amides. 

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