Hydrocarbon-stapled peptides: principles, practice, and progress: miniperspective

LD Walensky, GH Bird - Journal of medicinal chemistry, 2014 - ACS Publications
Protein structure underlies essential biological processes and provides a blueprint for
molecular mimicry that drives drug discovery. Although small molecules represent the lion's …

Asymmetric synthesis of α-amino acids via homologation of Ni (II) complexes of glycine Schiff bases; Part 1: alkyl halide alkylations

AE Sorochinsky, JL Aceña, H Moriwaki, T Sato… - Amino Acids, 2013 - Springer
Alkylations of chiral or achiral Ni (II) complexes of glycine Schiff bases constitute a landmark
in the development of practical methodology for asymmetric synthesis of α-amino acids …

Synthesis of all-hydrocarbon stapled α-helical peptides by ring-closing olefin metathesis

YW Kim, TN Grossmann, GL Verdine - Nature protocols, 2011 - nature.com
This protocol provides a detailed procedure for the preparation of stapled α-helical peptides,
which have proven their potential as useful molecular probes and as next-generation …

Design of triazole-stapled BCL9 α-helical peptides to target the β-catenin/B-cell CLL/lymphoma 9 (BCL9) protein–protein interaction

SA Kawamoto, A Coleska, X Ran, H Yi… - Journal of medicinal …, 2012 - ACS Publications
The interaction between β-catenin and B-cell CLL/lymphoma 9 (BCL9), critical for the
transcriptional activity of β-catenin, is mediated by a helical segment from BCL9 and a large …

Asymmetric synthesis of α-amino acids via homologation of Ni (II) complexes of glycine Schiff bases. Part 2: Aldol, Mannich addition reactions, deracemization and (S) …

AE Sorochinsky, JL Aceña, H Moriwaki, T Sato… - Amino Acids, 2013 - Springer
This review provides a comprehensive treatment of literature data dealing with asymmetric
synthesis of α-amino-β-hydroxy and α, β-diamino acids via homologation of chiral Ni (II) …

Advances in asymmetric amino acid synthesis enabled by radical chemistry

VA Larionov, NV Stoletova… - Advanced Synthesis & …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Chiral amino acids (AAs), being the main “building” blocks of the living organisms, are also
an important class of organic compounds which broadly applied in synthetic chemistry …

Asymmetric synthesis of α-amino acids via homologation of Ni (II) complexes of glycine Schiff bases. Part 3: Michael addition reactions and miscellaneous …

JL Aceña, AE Sorochinsky, V Soloshonok - Amino Acids, 2014 - Springer
The major goal of this review is a critical discussion of the literature data on asymmetric
synthesis of α-amino acids via Michael addition reactions involving Ni (II)-complexes of …

Orthogonal ring-closing alkyne and olefin metathesis for the synthesis of small GTPase-targeting bicyclic peptides

PM Cromm, S Schaubach, J Spiegel, A Fürstner… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Bicyclic peptides are promising scaffolds for the development of inhibitors of biological
targets that proved intractable by typical small molecules. So far, access to bioactive bicyclic …

Synthesis of fluorine-containing α-amino acids in enantiomerically pure form via homologation of Ni (II) complexes of glycine and alanine Schiff bases

JL Aceña, AE Sorochinsky, H Moriwaki, T Sato… - Journal of Fluorine …, 2013 - Elsevier
Abstract Development of synthetic methodology for preparation of enantiomerically pure
fluorine containing amino acids (FAAs) is one of the most actively pursued areas of …

Discovery of 7-[18F]Fluorotryptophan as a Novel Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Probe for the Visualization of Tryptophan Metabolism in Vivo

BD Zlatopolskiy, J Zischler, D Schäfer… - Journal of medicinal …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Tryptophan and its metabolites are involved in different physiological and
pathophysiological processes. Consequently, positron emission tomography (PET) tracers …