β-Peptoid foldamers at last

JS Laursen, J Engel-Andreasen… - Accounts of Chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Conspectus For a long time, peptides were considered unsuitable for drug development due
to their inherently poor pharmacokinetic properties and proteolytic susceptibility. However …

Peptide science: A “rule model” for new generations of peptidomimetics

HR Reese, CC Shanahan, C Proulx, S Menegatti - Acta biomaterialia, 2020 - Elsevier
Peptides have been heavily investigated for their biocompatible and bioactive properties.
Though a wide array of functionalities can be introduced by varying the amino acid …

Diversifying the structural architecture of synthetic oligomers: the hetero foldamer approach

A Roy, P Prabhakaran, PK Baruah… - Chemical …, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
Conformationally ordered synthetic oligomers, also called “foldamers”, have attracted
considerable attention in recent years owing to their ability to mimic the structural …

Conformational isomerism in cyclic peptoids and its specification

A D'Amato, R Schettini, G Della Sala… - Organic & …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Most of the structural studies made on the secondary structure of peptoids describe their
geometric attributes in terms of the classic Ramachandran plot (based on the local analysis …

Twice tied tight: Enforcing conformational order in bicyclic peptoid oligomers

SBL Vollrath, S Bräse, K Kirshenbaum - Chemical Science, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Head-to-tail cyclization of N-substituted glycine peptoid oligomers is known to enforce their
conformational ordering. We now describe the installation of an additional covalent …

Crystallization and lamellar nanosheet formation of an aromatic dipeptoid

V Castelletto, AM Chippindale, IW Hamley… - Chemical …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
An aromatic peptoid analogue of the diphenylalanine dipeptide self-assembles in aqueous
solution and the first crystal structure was obtained for this class of compound. This reveals …

Macrocyclic arylopeptoids–a novel type of cyclic N-alkylated aromatic oligoamides forming nanotubular assemblies

T Hjelmgaard, O Roy, L Nauton, M El-Ghozzi… - Chemical …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Macrocyclic arylopeptoids – a novel type of cyclic N -alkylated aromatic oligoamides forming
nanotubular assemblies - Chemical Communications (RSC Publishing) DOI:10.1039/C4CC00821A …

Selective complexation of divalent cations by a cyclic α, β-peptoid hexamer: a spectroscopic and computational study

E De Santis, AA Edwards, BD Alexander… - Organic & …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
We describe the qualitative and quantitative analysis of the complexation properties towards
cations of a cyclic peptoid hexamer composed of alternating α-and β-peptoid monomers …

Cyclic α, β-tetrapeptoids: Sequence-dependent cyclization and conformational preference

C Caumes, C Fernandes, O Roy, T Hjelmgaard… - Organic …, 2013 - ACS Publications
The presence of at least one N-Cα branched side chain is crucial for successful cyclization
of α, β-tetrapeptoids. The ctct amide sequence revealed in the crystal structure of the 14 …

Accessing sequence specific hybrid peptoid oligomers with varied pendant group spacing

JC Furgal, JM van Dijck, SC Leguizamon… - European Polymer …, 2019 - Elsevier
The synthesis of β-peptoids (ie, N-substituted β-alanine oligomers) 10 or more residues in
length has proven challenging owing to poor coupling efficiency even after extended …