(1) Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University, 606 Kyoto, Japan
Abstract:
Treatment of a mixture of Cys(R)(O) and Cys(R) with an acid was found to generate cystine in fairly good yields, when suitable R, R, and an acid were selected. An unsymmetrical cystine peptide was prepared by treatment of a mixture of Z(OMe)-Cys(R) (0)-Ala-NH2 (R=Acm or MBzl) and Z(OMe)-Cys(MBzl)-Gly-OBzl with TFA or 1 M TFMSA/TFA.3 Oxytocin was obtained in an excellent yield by TFA treatment of the protected peptide containing Cys(Acm)(0) and Cys(MBzl). Thus, formation of the disulfide bond was found feasible at the position of Cys(R) (0).The following abbreviations are used Boc
t-butyloxycarbonyl
- Z(OMe)
p-methoxybenzyloxycarbonyl
- MBzl
p-methoxybenzyl
- Acm
acetamidomethyl
- Bzl
benzyl
- Ad
l-adamantyl
- tBu
t-butyl
- TFA
trifluoroacetic acid
- TFMSA
trifluoromethanesulfonic acid
- TMSOTf
trimethylsilyl trifluoromethane sulfonate