The essential requirement for an oligomer to be included in the foldamer family is to possess a well defined, repetitive secondary structure, imparted by conformational restrictions of the monomeric unit. In this connection we described the preparation and the conformational analysis of pseudopeptides containing the 4-carboxy oxazolidin-2-one unit: these compounds contain a cyclic urethane moiety, so that by coupling it with a carboxylic acid derivative an imido-type function is obtained. This latter group is characterized by a nitrogen atom connected to an endocyclic and an exocyclic carbonyl which tend to adopt the trans conformation. As a consequence of this locally constrained disposition effect, these imide-type oligomers are forced to fold in an ordered conformation, that can lead, in the solid state to the formation of fibers or platelets.
Oxazolidin-2-ones Based Foldamers
TOMASINI, CLAUDIA
2009
Abstract
The essential requirement for an oligomer to be included in the foldamer family is to possess a well defined, repetitive secondary structure, imparted by conformational restrictions of the monomeric unit. In this connection we described the preparation and the conformational analysis of pseudopeptides containing the 4-carboxy oxazolidin-2-one unit: these compounds contain a cyclic urethane moiety, so that by coupling it with a carboxylic acid derivative an imido-type function is obtained. This latter group is characterized by a nitrogen atom connected to an endocyclic and an exocyclic carbonyl which tend to adopt the trans conformation. As a consequence of this locally constrained disposition effect, these imide-type oligomers are forced to fold in an ordered conformation, that can lead, in the solid state to the formation of fibers or platelets.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
