Comprehensive Chiroptical Study of Proline‐Containing Diamide Compounds. Issue 4 (7th March 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Knapp, Krisztina; Górecki, Marcin; Frelek, Jadwiga; Luboradzki, Roman; Hollósi, Miklós; Majer, Zsuzsa; Vass, Elemér
• Is Part Of: Chirality. Volume 26:Issue 4(2014:Apr.)
• Page Start: 228
• Page End: 242
• Publication Date: 2014-03-07
• Subjects: Chirality -- Periodicals; Pharmaceutical chemistry -- Periodicals; 541.22
• DOI: 10.1002/chir.22305
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0899-0042

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="main"> <title>ABSTRACT</title> <p>The continuously growing interest in the understanding of peptide folding led to the conformational investigation of methylamides of N‐acetyl‐amino acids as diamide models. Here we report the results of detailed conformational analysis on Ac‐Pro‐NHMe and Ac‐β‐HPro‐NHMe diamides. These compounds were analyzed by experimental and computational methods, the conformational distributions obtained by Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations for isolated and solvated diamide compounds are discussed. The conformational preference of proline‐containing diamide compounds as a function of the ambience was observed by a number of chiroptical spectroscopic techniques, such as vibrational circular dichroism (VCD), electronic circular dichroism (ECD), Raman optical activity (ROA) spectroscopy, and additionally by single crystal X‐ray diffraction analyses. Based on a comparison between Ac‐Pro‐NHMe and Ac‐β‐HPro‐NHMe, one can conclude that due to the greater conformational freedom of the β‐HPro derivative, Ac‐β‐HPro‐NHMe shows different behavior in solid‐ and solution‐phase, as well. Ac‐β‐HPro‐NHMe tends to form <italic>cis</italic> Ac‐β‐HPro amide conformation in water, dichloromethane, and acetonitrile in contrast to its α‐Pro analog. On the other hand, the crystal structure of the β‐HPro compound cannot be related to any of the conformers obtained in vacuum and solution while the X‐ray structure of Ac‐Pro‐NHMe was identified as <italic>t</italic>α<sub>L</sub>–, which is a <italic>trans</italic> Ac‐Pro amide containing conformer also predominant in polar solvents. <italic>Chirality 26:228–242, 2014</italic>. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.</p> </abstract>