Abstract
Procedures were developed for reducing the reaction time and improving the yield of reductive alkylation in solid phase pseudopeptide synthesis by utilizing microwave irradiation. We chose dipeptides containing the reduced amide bond ψ[CH 2NH] as a model system and optimized the microwave assisted reductive alkylation reaction in solid phase pseudopeptide synthesis using Fmoc chemistry. Under the optimized condition, the reductive alkylation reaction used for incorporating the reduced amide bond into the dipeptides was completed in only 8.5 min, whereas the normal reductive alkylation reaction required a total of 300 min. The purity and yield of the various dipeptides containing the reduced amide bond synthesized in this way are better than those achieved using the reductive alkylation method without microwave irradiation. We chose α helical peptides, which are known as a difficult sequence to synthesize, and incorporated the reduced amide bond by the microwave-assisted reductive alkylation reaction. We successfully synthesized pseudopeptides containing the reduced amide bond as a major product by using the novel microwave-assisted method, whereas the same products were obtained as a minor product when using the reductive alkylation method without microwave irradiation.
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