Peptidomimetic small molecule combinatorial

Design, Synthesis, Screening, and Decoding of Encoded One-Bead One-Compound Peptidomimetic and Small Molecule Combinatorial Libraries... 

Liu R, Marik J, Lam KS. A novel peptide-based encoding system for one-bead one-compound peptidomimetic and small molecule combinatorial libraries. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2002 124 7678-7680. 

Mixture-Based Combinatorial Libraries From Peptides and Peptidomimetics to Small Molecule Acyclic and Heterocyclic Compounds... 

The first installment in this series (Volume 267, 1996) mostly covered peptide and peptidomimetic based research with just a few examples of small molecule libraries. In this volume we have compiled cutting-edge research in combinatorial chemistry, including divergent areas such as novel analytical techniques, microwave-assisted synthesis, novel linkers, and synthetic approaches in both solid-phase and polymer-assisted synthesis of peptides, small molecules, and heterocyclic systems, as well as the application of these technologies to optimize molecular properties of scientific and commercial interest. 

The third group of alliances focuses on lead optimization. Here, a particular lead is known, such as a small peptide and it is desired to optimize the activity of that lead. In the case of peptides this could be accomplished through phage display and/or peptidomimetic combinatorial chemistry. Companies involved in alliances of this type have proprietary technologies that enable them to generate usually small-molecule libraries built around particular molecular themes, for example, steroid cores. Examples include alliances of Ontogen, Dyax, ArQule, etc. 

The design strategies employed to improve combinatorial chemistry have evolved considerably since the early days of peptide and peptidomimetic libraries. The main concern early was on the availability of suitable synthetic methods that could be applied to the synthesis of libraries of small molecules however, this early obstacle has been intensively addressed and at this point can be considered overcome (for examples of new methodology developed for library production see Ref 21). With the ability in hand to prepare many different types of molecules in a variety of formats, the current challenge is to decide what compounds to make. As a consequence, much attention is now focused on the definition and analysis of chemical diversity. 

Since the introduction of solid-phase peptide synthesis by Merrifield (1) nearly forty years ago, solid-phase techniques have been applied to the construction of a variety of biopolymers and extended into the field of small molecule synthesis. The last decade has seen the emergenee of solid-phase synthesis as the leading technique in the development and production of combinatorial libraries of diverse compounds of varying sizes and properties. Combinatorial libraries can be classified as biopolymer based (e.g., peptides, peptidomimetics, polyureas, and others [2,3]) or small moleeule based (e.g., heterocycles [4], natural product derivatives [5], and inorganie eomplexes [6,7]). Libraries synthesized by solid-phase techniques mainly use polystyrene-divinylbenzene (PS) derived solid supports. Owing to physieal and ehemical limitations of PS-derived resins, other resins have been developed (8,9). Most of these resins are prepared from PS by functionalizing the resin beads with oligomers to improve solvent compatibility and physical stability (8,9). 

Soluble PEG supports have been used for different applications such as the synthesis of peptides (241, 245) and peptidomimetics (246) soluble-supported catalysts (247-249), reagents (250-253), scavengers (254), and traceless linkers (255-257) to improve purification protocols (258, 259) and high-loading PEG-derived soluble supports (260), particularly in the synthesis of arrays of small organic molecules (261-275). Several recent reviews (276-281) illustrate their usefulness but also show how additional efforts could make PEG liquid-phase combinatorial synthesis more reliable. 

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