A mild method for the synthesis of a novel dehydrobutyrine-containing amino acid

Alexandra M. Webster; Christopher R. Coxon; Alan M. Kenwright; Graham Sandford; Steven L. Cobb

doi:10.1016/j.tet.2014.05.031

A mild method for the synthesis of a novel dehydrobutyrine-containing amino acid

Alexandra M. Webster
, Christopher R. Coxon
, Alan M. Kenwright
, Graham Sandford
, Steven L. Cobb^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Dehydrobutyrine is an amino acid that is present in a range of peptide natural products. Reaction of pentafluoropyridine with threonine and subsequent E1cb-type elimination allowed the preparation of novel dehydrobutyrine- containing amino acids under mild conditions.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	4661-4667
Number of pages	7
Journal	Tetrahedron
Volume	70
Issue number	31
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tet.2014.05.031
Publication status	Published - 5 Aug 2014

Keywords

Amino acid
Dehydrobutyrine
Nucleophilic aromatic substitution
Pentafluoropyridine

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Biochemistry
Drug Discovery
Organic Chemistry

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