S. Valenza et al., Regio- and stereoselective cycloadditions of cyclic nitrones to maleic diamide forced in a peptide: Synthesis of potent ligands of human NK-2 receptor, J ORG CHEM, 65(13), 2000, pp. 4003-4008
The regioselectivity and the stereoselectivity induced by relatively small
peptidomimetic maleic diamide 1 in cycloaddition reactions with cyclic nitr
ones 2-5 was studied. The high regio- and stereoselectivity observed, sensi
bly increased by nonpolar solvents, was the effect of a double-asymmetric i
nduction produced by the nitrone substituent on the pseudopeptidic tether.
A new class of potent human tachykinin NK-2 receptor ligands was synthesize
d.