Here we describe a multistep solid-phase synthetic approach for the addition of amino acid residues to boththe C- and N-termini of a phenylstatine core, yielding a library aimed at the development of structure-activity relationships in the S2 and S2' regions of the aspartyl proteases. Optimization of the syntheticstrategy was performed on the basis of the in situ analysis of the compounds bound to the solid supportthrough high-resolution magic angle spinning NMR Spectroscopy (HR-MAS NMR).