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J Org Chem. 2017 May 05;82(9):4819-4828. doi: 10.1021/acs.joc.7b00494. Epub 2017 Apr 21.

Conformational Effects through Hydrogen Bonding in a Constrained γ-Peptide Template: From Intraresidue Seven-Membered Rings to a Gel-Forming Sheet Structure.

The Journal of organic chemistry

Hawraà Awada, Claire M Grison, Florence Charnay-Pouget, Jean-Pierre Baltaze, François Brisset, Régis Guillot, Sylvie Robin, Ali Hachem, Nada Jaber, Daoud Naoufal, Ogaritte Yazbeck, David J Aitken

Affiliations

  1. CP3A Organic Synthesis Group and Services Communs, ICMMO, UMR 8182, CNRS, Université Paris Sud, Université Paris Saclay , Bât. 420, 15 rue Georges Clemenceau, 91405 Orsay cedex, France.
  2. Inorganic and Organometallic Coordination Chemistry Laboratory and Laboratory for Medicinal Chemistry and Natural Products, Faculty of Sciences (I) & PRASE-EDST, Lebanese University , Hadath, Lebanon.
  3. UFR Sciences Pharmaceutiques et Biologiques, Université Paris Descartes , 4 avenue de l'Observatoire, 75270 Paris cedex 06, France.

PMID: 28398045 DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.7b00494

Abstract

A series of three short oligomers (di-, tri-, and tetramers) of cis-2-(aminomethyl)cyclobutane carboxylic acid, a γ-amino acid featuring a cyclobutane ring constraint, were prepared, and their conformational behavior was examined spectroscopically and by molecular modeling. In dilute solutions, these peptides showed a number of low-energy conformers, including ribbonlike structures pleated around a rarely observed series of intramolecular seven-membered hydrogen bonds. In more concentrated solutions, these interactions defer to an organized supramolecular assembly, leading to thermoreversible organogel formation notably for the tripeptide, which produced fibrillar xerogels. In the solid state, the dipeptide adopted a fully extended conformation featuring a one-dimensional network of intermolecularly H-bonded molecules stacked in an antiparallel sheet alignment. This work provides unique insight into the interplay between inter- and intramolecular H-bonded conformer topologies for the same peptide template.

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