De. Hibbs et al., SYNTHESIS OF PEPTIDES AND PSEUDOPEPTIDES INCORPORATING AN ENDO-(2S,3R)-NORBORN-5-ENE RESIDUE AS A TURN INDUCER, Journal of organic chemistry, 63(5), 1998, pp. 1496-1504
The desymmetrization of endo-norborn-5-ene-2,3-dicarboxylic anhydride
(5) by proline derivatives is used to prepare peptides and pseudopepti
des incorporating an endo-(2S,3R)-2-amino-3-carboxynorborn-5-ene (1) r
esidue. The peptides contain a single conformationally constrained bet
a-amino acid residue, while the pseudopeptides also contain a urea lin
kage and two peptide chains running in parallel directions. The key st
ep in the synthesis is a Curtius rearrangement on the amido acids 6a,b
to generate an isocyanate that is then directly reacted with suitably
protected amino acids and peptides to give the peptides and pseudopep
tides. The synthesis of the peptide analogue 4 is also described; in t
his compound, the two peptide chains run parallel to one another, and
the stereochemistry of the norbornene unit within compound 4 was deter
mined by X-ray analysis of the related peptide analogue 23.