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SUBMITTER: Liebeskind LS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2790066 | biostudies-literature | 2009
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) 20090101 8
A copper-catalyzed transformation of peptidic thiol esters and boronic acids gives peptidyl ketones and takes place in DMF or DMF/H(2)O at room temperature in air (see scheme). This aerobic reaction only occurs at a thiol ester group capable of coordinating to Cu through its appendage on the sulfur center and is not hampered by racemization of the reactants or products. ...[more]