摘要:
The synthesis of the tetrapeptides Ala-Gly-Gly-His, Boc-Ala-Gly-Gly-His (Boc = t-butoxycarbonyl), Ala-Gly-Gly-His(pi-bom) (pi-bom = N-pi-benzoxymethyl), Ala-Gly-Gly-His-OMe, and Ala-Gly-Pro-His is reported, together with the results of a pH-metric and spectroscopic (absorption, c.d., and e.s.r.) study of their complexes with H+ and Cu(ll). The work was designed to study the initial site of binding to Cu(ll) in peptides containing both a terminal amino nitrogen and a histidyl residue. Results show that the pi-N of the imidazole ring of the histidyl residue is the primary anchoring site for copper (ll) co-ordination, and that the next nitrogen to bond can be the terminal amino N, forming a macrocyclic chelate ring.