作者:Fernando Formaggio、Marcella Bonchio、Marco Crisma、Cristina Peggion、Stefano Mezzato、Alessandra Polese、Alessandra Barazza、Sabrina Antonello、Flavio Maran、Quirinus B. Broxterman、Bernard Kaptein、Johan Kamphuis、Rosa Maria Vitale、Michele Saviano、Ettore Benedetti、Claudio Toniolo
DOI:10.1002/1521-3765(20020104)8:1<84::aid-chem84>3.0.co;2-n
日期:2002.1.4
The achiral, nitroxyl-containing a-amino acid TOAC (TOAC 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine-1-oxyl-4-amino-4-carboxylic acid), in combination with the chiral alpha-amino acid C-alpha-methyl valine [(alphaMe)Val]. was used to prepare short peptides (from di- to hexa-) that induced the enantioselective oxidation of racemic I-phenylethanol to acetophenone. The best catalyst was an N-alpha-acylated dipeptide alkylamide with the -TOAC-(alphaMe)Val- sequence folded in a stable, intramolecularly hydrogen-bonded beta-turn conformation with large. lipophilic (hydrophobic) N- and C-terminal blocking groups. We rationalized our findings by proposing models for the diastereomeric intermediates between (R)-[and (S)]-1-phenylethanol and the catalyst Fmoc-TOAC-L(alphaMe)Val-NHiPr, based on the X-ray diffraction structure of the latter.