Abstract
(Chemical Equation Presented) External bicyclic β-turn dipeptide mimetics provide an excellent design approach that can offer a rich chiral ensemble of structures with different backbone conformations. We report herein a novel design of a convergent combinatorial synthetic methodology, which is illustrated by the solid-phase synthesis of a series of [3.3.0]-bicyclo [2,3]-Leu-enkephalin analogues. The reactions were optimized and the epimeric configurations were determined by 2D NMR spectroscopy. Biological assays show that these analogues have more potent δ binding affinity and bioactivity for δ vs μ opioid receptor, which may be related to the different conformations preferred by these analogues in our modeling studies.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 3285-3288 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Organic Letters |
Volume | 6 |
Issue number | 19 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Sep 16 2004 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Biochemistry
- Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
- Organic Chemistry