Solid-phase synthesis of diketopiperazines, useful scaffolds for combinatorial chemistry

Tetrahedron Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 17, 1998, Pages 2639-2642

  Del Fresno, Montserrat ^a   Alsina, Jordi ^a   Royo, Miriam ^a   Barany, George ^b   Albericio, Fernando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPEPTIDE; PIPERAZINEDIONE;

ARTICLE; DRUG STRUCTURE; DRUG SYNTHESIS; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0032559999     PISSN: 00404039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-4039(98)00226-3     Document Type: Article

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1. 2O, acetic anhydride; Al, allyl; Alloc, allyloxycarbonyl; BAL, backbone amide linker; Bu, butyl; Bzl, benzyl; Ddz, 2-(3,5-dimethoxyphenyl)propyl[2]oxycarbonyl; DIEA, N,N-diisopropylethylamine; DKP, diketopiperazine, (2,5-piperazinedione); DMF, N,N-dimethylformamide; Fmoc, 9-fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl; HATU, N-[(dimethylamino)-1H-1,2,3-triazolo-[4,5-b]pyridin-1-yl-methylene]-N-methylmethanaminium hexafluorophosphate N-oxide; HPLC, high performance liquid chromatography; IRAA, internal reference amino acid; Mtt, 4-methyltrityl; MALDI-TOF, matrix assisted laser desorption ionization, time of flight; PALdehyde, 5-(4-formyl-3,5-dimethoxyphenoxy)valeric acid; PEG-PS, polyethylene glycol-polystyrene graft; PS, polystyrene; PyAOP, 7-azabenzotriazol-1-yl-oxytris(pyrrolidino)phosphonium hexafluorophosphate; TFA, trifluoroacetic acid; THF, tetrahydrofuran; Trt, triphenylmethyl (trityl). Amino acid symbols denote L-configuration unless otherwise noted.
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39. 18. Methyl ester of all amino acids are commercially available. The same chemistry was also successful for other esters; in particular the rates and yields of DKP formation (step i) were shown to be very similar for methyl, allyl, and benzyl esters.
40. 2 and MeOH, and finally dried. These conditions assure complete integrity of the amino acyl chiral center.
41. 2O-DMF (1:9, 20 min), and washed with DMF.
42. 21. Treatments with piperidine-DMF (1:4) were followed by washes with DMF. At this stage, the Kaiser ninhydrin test was in all cases negative.
43. 22. Yields were determined to be greater than 95%, as follows: Upon completion of the DKP-forming reaction, a third Fmoc-amino acid was coupled, and resin was subjected to acid hydrolysis followed by AAA. The ratio between this third amino acid and the initial two gave the amount of free amine, and could then be used to calculate the overall yield of DKP formation.
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46. 3CN and 0.1% aqueous TFA, from 1:9 to 1:0, over 30 min, run at 1.0 mL/min. UV detection was at 220 nm. All DKPs studied showed purity similar to the example of DKP (5).