INFIQC   05475
INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN FISICO- QUIMICA DE CORDOBA
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
SYNTHESIS OF CYCLIC D-alt-L PEPTIDOMIMETICS STARTING FROM A CARBOHYDRATE PRECURSOR
Autor/es:
SOL C. PARAJÓN PUENZO; MARTIN LOPEZ VIDAL; SANDRA E. MARTÍN; OSCAR VARELA
Lugar:
DENVER
Reunión:
Congreso; ACS Summer School on Green Chemistry and Sustainable Energy; 2013
Institución organizadora:
AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Resumen:
Fundamental building blocks used by nature are
amalgamated to produce natural-like, yet unnatural, structural entities with multifunctional groups
anchored in a single assembly. For example, hybrid molecules that maintain the basic structure of a
carbohydrate have been obtained. These hybrid molecules include amino and carboxyl functional groups,
characteristic of amino acids. Diverse arrays of peptidic templates have been employed for the
construction of homo- and heterooligomers that behave as peptidomimetics. These molecules are
sometimes able to associate themselves spontaneously (self-assembly process) to form complex
architectures. The novel materials find useful applications as microelectronics, drug delivery and tissue
engineering. The linear oligopeptides are also precursor of cyclic peptoids (carbopeptoids) useful as
molecular receptors. We describe herein the synthesis of an amino acid building block starting from
inexpensive D-glucono-1,5-lactone. As the amino containing stereocenter possesses the S configuration,
the molecule was combined with D-alanine (R configuration) to give D-alt-L peptides to favor selfassembly
processes.