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Bio-inspired Herringbone Foldamers: Strategy for Changing the Structure of Helices
Adam, Abdulselam,Haberhauer, Gebhard,W?lper, Christoph
, p. 4203 - 4215 (2017)
Cyclic oligomers of azole peptides were isolated from a multitude of marine organisms and were used for a large number of molecular machines. As shown previously, oligomers derived from achiral imidazole amino acids fold into canonical helices. Here we show that a minor change, the introduction of a methyl group in the δ position, results in a significant change in the secondary structure of the corresponding oligomers. Instead of a canonical helix, a noncanonical herringbone helix is formed. In the latter, the slope along the helix changes its sign at least twice per turn. This strategy allows a remarkable change of the secondary structure via a small modification. By means of enantiomerically pure amino acids, we were able to control, for the first time, both the helicity of the helix and the form of the herringbone. The investigation of the underlying herringbone basic element and its folding to a noncanonical helix were conducted by NMR and CD spectroscopy, as well as by X-ray crystallography and quantum chemical calculations.
Synthesis of functionalised oxazoles and bis-oxazoles
Bagley, Mark C.,Buck, Richard T.,Hind, S. Lucy,Moody, Christopher J.
, p. 591 - 600 (2007/10/03)
A new method for the synthesis of oxazoles, and in particular chiral non-racemic oxazoles derived from amino acids, has been developed. Thus, rhodium(II) catalysed reaction of diazocarbonyl compounds 6 and 11 in the presence of amides 8 and 10 results in regioselective insertion of the carbenoid into the amide N-H bond with formation of the β-carbonyl amides 9 and 12. Cyclodehydration of amides 9 and 12 using triphenylphosphine-iodine-triethylamine gives functionalised oxazoles 7 and 13. The oxazoles 13c and 13f were converted into the bis-oxazoles 17a and 17b by a second rhodium(II) catalysed regioselective N-H insertion reaction on the amides 15, followed by cyclodehydration.
