Sureshbabu, Vommina V.; Chennakrishnareddy, Gundala, Indian Journal of Chemistry - Section B Organic and Medicinal Chemistry, 2009, vol. 48, # 7, p. 981 - 988
A highly aggregating elastin peptide was prepared efficiently using a high pressureliquid phase synthesis approach assisted by a soluble tag strategy. Two standard syringes were connected to each other to construct a reactor. This simple reactor was used to apply high pressure to the highly viscous reaction mixture thereby maintaining its fluidity. The reactions were completely inhibited due to aggregation when conducted in a standard flask reactor, whereas our high pressure approach accelerated the couplings to realize complete conversion within 57 min. All steps were conducted at 0.10 M concentration, affording grams of the desired product.