Abstract
Herein, the design of a catalyst that combines lessons learned from peptide biosynthesis, enzymes, and organocatalysts is described. The catalyst features a urea scaffold for carbonyl recognition and elements of nucleophilic catalysis. In the presence of 10 mol % of the organocatalyst, the rate of peptide bond formation is accelerated by 10000-fold over the uncatalyzed reaction between Fmoc-amino acid thioesters and amino acid methyl esters.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 5122-5125 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Organic Letters |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue number | 19 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 6 Oct 2017 |
| Externally published | Yes |
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