摘要:
An optically active alpha -ethylated alpha,alpha -disubstituted amino acid, (S)-butylethylglycine (= (2S)-2-amino-2-ethylhexanoic acid; (S)-Beg; (S)-2),was prepared starring from butyl ethyl ketone (1) by the Strecker method and enzymatic kinetic resolution of the racemic amino acid. Homooligopeptides containing (S)-Beg (up to hexapeptide) were synthesized by conventional solution methods. An ethyl cater was used for the protection at the C-terminus, and a trifluoroacetyl group was used for the N-terminus of the peptides. Thr structures of tri- and tetrapeptides 5 and 6 in the solid state were solved by X-ray crystallographic analysis, and were shown to have a bent planar C-conformation (tripeptide) and a fully planar C-5-conformation (tetrapeptide) (see Figs. I and 2, resp.). The IR and H-1-NMR spectra of hexapeptide 8 revealed that the dominant conformation in CDCl3, solution was also a fully planar C-5-conformation, These results show for the first time that the preferred conformation of homopeptides containing a chiral alpha -ethylated alpha,alpha -disubstituted amino acid is a planar C-5-conformation.