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Hypervalent Iodine: New Reagents and Functionalization of Peptides

Alkynes are found in a multitude of natural or synthetic bioactive compounds. In addition to the capacity of these chemical motifs to impact the physicochemical properties of a molecule of interest, the well-established reactivity of alkynes makes them ide ...

EPFL2023

Synthesis and application of bifunctional hypervalent iodine reagents for peptide modification

Elija Grinhagena

Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) are responsible for regulating many biological processes in human bodies. PPIs often have a large binding site and often interact through an alpha helical segment. Therefore, the inhibition of PPIs can be difficult using ...

EPFL2023

Synthesis and Applications of Ynimines and Enantioselective Total Synthesis of Artatrovirenol A

Rémi Hugo Lavernhe

The first chapter of this thesis describe the development of a general synthesis of ynimines, an under-exploited motif in organic chemistry. In the presence of an inexpensive copper catalyst and 2,2'-biquinoline, reaction of easily accessible O-acyloximes ...

EPFL2023

Ring-Opening Reactions of Aminocyclopropanes and Aminocyclobutanes

Mingming Wang

Nitrogen-containing compounds are an important class of molecules in medicinal chemistry, chemical biology, biochemistry, material sciences or environmental sciences. Organic nitrogen occurs in many forms, ranging from small building blocks such as urea, a ...

EPFL2022

N-Terminal Selective C-H Azidation of Proline-Containing Peptides: a Platform for Late-Stage Diversification

Jérôme Waser, Raphaël Michel Henri Simonet-Davin, Emmanuelle Madeline Dominique Allouche

A methodology for the C-H azidation of N-terminal proline-containing peptides was developed employing only commercially available reagents. Peptides bearing a broad range of functionalities and containing up to 6 amino acids were selectively azidated at th ...

2022

Cu(I)-Catalyzed gem-Aminoalkynylation of Diazo Compounds: Synthesis of Fluorinated Propargylic Amines

Jérôme Waser, Guillaume Dominique Pisella, Nieves Pilar Ramirez Hernandez

The gem-aminoalkynylation of fluorinated diazo compounds catalyzed by a simple Cu(I) salt is described. This three-component reaction allows the synthesis of propargylic amines with broad functional group tolerance. Both electron-rich and electron-poor ani ...

2021

Development of Photocatalysts towards the Visible-Light driven C-Terminal Bioconjugation of Peptides and Proteins

Marion Marie-Agnès Garreau

If small molecules have led to tremendous progress in curing diseases, new therapeutic agents such as peptides or antibody-drugs conjugates have emerged as a highly promising next generation of pharmaceuticals. As for small molecules, their derivatization ...

EPFL2020

TiCl3-Mediated Synthesis of 2,3,3-Trisubstituted Indolenines: Total Synthesis of (+)-1,2-Dehydroaspidospermidine, (+)-Condyfoline, and (-)-Tubifoline

Cyril Piemontesi, Qian Wang, Jieping Zhu, Bastien Delayre

2,3,3-Trisubstituted indolenine constitutes an integral part of many biologically important monoterpene indole alkaloids. We report herein an unprecedented access to this skeleton by a TiCl3-mediated reductive cyclization of tetrasubstituted alkenes bearin ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2020

Copper-Catalyzed 1,2-Methoxy Methoxycarbonylation of Alkenes with Methyl Formate and Synthetic Studies Towards the Total Synthesis of Koumine, Voacafricine A and Voacafricine B

Balázs Budai

The development of an unusual oxidative alkene difunctionalization using methyl formate and syn-thetic studies towards alkaloid natural products provide the basis of the thesis. The first chapter details the development of a method that forges methoxycarbo ...

EPFL2020

Investigations of the Chemistry of 1-Alkynyltriazenes

Florian Gérald Abela

The chemistry of aromatic triazenes is well known, and has been explored for more than a century. These compounds have emerged as very useful intermediates, because of their unique reactivity. This functionality can notably be used to access many other fun ...

EPFL2018

Development of cyclic peptide inhibitors of coagulation factor XII and matrix metalloproteinase 2

Jonas Alfred Karl Wilbs

Peptides represent a promising molecular class for drug development. They combine several strengths of small molecules (e.g. efficient tissue diffusion, low immunogenicity and access to chemical synthesis) and key properties of biologics such as monoclonal ...

EPFL2018

Can Biomimetic Zinc Compounds Assist a (3 + 2) Cycloaddition Reaction? A Theoretical Perspective

Ursula Röthlisberger, Esra Bozkurt

Compounds bearing tetrazole rings are valuable facets in numerous branches of chemistry including metabolic imaging and the production of drugs and high-energy materials. Synthesis of tetrazoles with the help of organocatalysts has intensively been explore ...

2017

Synthesis of cyclic peptide disulfide-PHPMA conjugates via sequential active ester aminolysis and CuAAC coupling

Harm-Anton Klok

Cyclic peptide disulfides (CXC) are an important class of biomolecules. The conjugation of cyclic peptide disulfides to synthetic polymers, however, is often difficult due to the presence of the disulfide bond combined with other potentially reactive side ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2016

Reaction of bromine and chlorine with phenolic compounds and natural organic matter extracts - Electrophilic aromatic substitution and oxidation

Urs von Gunten, Eva Maria Rodriguez Franco

Phenolic compounds are known structural moieties of natural organic matter (NOM), and their reactivity is a key parameter for understanding the reactivity of NOM and the disinfection by-product formation during oxidative water treatment. In this study, spe ...

Elsevier2015

Development of Catalytic Umpolung : Part 1: Direct Alkynylation of Heterocycles and Electron-Rich Aromatics using Alkynyl-Benziodoxolones - Part 2: Synthesis of New Bifunctional (Thio)urea-Carbene Catalysts

Jonathan Brand

The development of efficient synthetic methodologies is crucial to access complex molecules in an economic, eco-friendly and safe way. The reversal of the intrinsic reactivity of functional groups, called Umpolung, allows alternative synthetic strategies a ...

EPFL2012

Synthesis of 4-amino-1,2,3,4-tetrahydropyridine derivatives by intramolecular nucleophilic addition of tertiary enamides to in-situ generated imines

Jieping Zhu, Shuo Tong, Xu Yang

The reactivity of stable tertiary enamides in nucleophilic addition reaction with various in-situ generated imines was explored. Under very mild conditions, formyl-bearing tertiary enamides reacted with both aromatic and aliphatic amines to form imine inte ...

Elsevier2012

Peptide/protein – polymer conjugates: synthetic strategies and design concepts

Harm-Anton Klok, Marc Gauthier

This feature article provides a compilation of tools available for preparing well-defined peptide/protein–polymer conjugates, which are defined as hybrid constructs combining (i) a defined number of peptide/protein segments with uniform chain lengths and d ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2008

Nouvelles approches synthétiques de prodrogues de cyclosporine A et d'analogues antiviraux

Jérémy Bérard

The cyclosporins comprise a family of cyclic 11-peptides containing seven N-methylated, hydrophobic amino acids. Cyclosporine A (CsA) representing the major member of this family is widely used as immunosuppressive agent in organ transplantations. The biol ...

EPFL2008

Amino or Thiol Linker Building Block for the Synthesis of Amino- or Thiol-functionalized nucleic acids and Methods of Making and Use Thereof

An amino or thiol linker building block for the synthesis of amino or thiol functionalized amino acids and generally of the following structure: Formula XII is provided. Such building block may be introduced in the 5' end position of an amino acid under st ...

2006

Fluorine in an heteroaromatic context : functionalization of halopyridines

Thierry Rausis

The organometallic approach to the functionalization of arenes and heteroarenes has recently been investigated by our group introducing modifications of the standard methods. This includes, in particular, the basicity-driven heavy halogen migration, which ...

EPFL2005