Abstract
The application of designer peptides in medicinal chemistry, chemical biology, and materials science has generated new interest in synthetic methods for the structural modification of amino acids. Strategies which facilitate the direct diversification of proteinogenic functional groups within unprotected peptide substrates are particularly attractive as they leverage modern solution- and solid-phase protocols—tools which are now both robust and routine—for the synthesis of native peptides. Accordingly, a recent approach to the decarboxylative functionalization of peptidic carboxylic acids, including aspartic/glutamic acid residues and α-carboxylic acids, has proven to be a promising new strategy for peptide modification. This synthetic method merges conventional strategies for the activation of carboxylic acids with transition metal-catalyzed cross-coupling chemistry to forge new C–C bonds for the late-stage introduction of valuable synthetic handles. This chapter details a step-by-step protocol for the activation and nickel-catalyzed decarboxylative alkylation of a simple peptide substrate to highlight the broad utility of this strategy for the synthesis of designer peptides.
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Zhang, M.Y., Malins, L.R. (2020). Decarboxylative Couplings for Late-Stage Peptide Modifications. In: Hussein, W., Skwarczynski, M., Toth, I. (eds) Peptide Synthesis. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2103. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-0227-0_19
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