A practical synthesis of a new bifunctional diketopiperazine (DKP) scaffold
1, formally derived fromthe cyclization of
L-aspartic acid and (
S)-2,3-diaminopropionic acid, is reported. DKP-
1 bears a carboxylicacid and an amino functionalities in a cis relationship, which have been used to grow peptide sequences.Tetra-, penta-, and hexapeptidomimetic sequences were prepared by solution-phase peptide synthesis(Boc strategy). Conformational analysis of these derivatives was carried out by a combination of
1HNMR spectroscopy, IR spectroscopy, CD spectroscopy, and computer modeling, and reveals the formationof
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-hairpin mimics involving 10-membered and 18-membered H-bonded rings and a reverse turn of thegrowing peptide chain.