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JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
Volume 69, Issue 2, Pages 270-279Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jo035149i
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Donor-acceptor interaction between electron-rich 1,5-dioxynaphthalene (DAN) and electron-deficient pyromellitic diimide (PDI) has been utilized to induce the formation of a new kind of zipper-featured delta-peptide foldamers. Seven L-ornithine-based delta-peptides 1a-g, in which one to three DNA and PDI units are incorporated to the two ends of the peptide backbones, respectively, have been designed and prepared by the standard liquid-phase synthetic method. H-1 NMR, LTV-vis, and fluorescent quenching studies reveal that all the delta-peptides adopt folding conformations in nonpolar chloroform and polar DMF as a result of intramolecular donor-acceptor interaction between the DAN and PDI units. The folding states become more compact for the peptide skeletons possessing more donor-acceptor interacting sites. Variable-temperature LTV-vis experiments indicate that, although the folding is a dynamic process, the folding state can remain even at 150degreesC in DMF. Circular dichroism (CD) investigations reveal that the new generation of delta-peptides have similar folding patterns. A zipper-featured folding motif has been proposed for the new generation of delta-peptide foldamers. Molecular modeling has generated two most stable folding states for the longest 6-peptide 1g, with an energy difference of 26.80 kcal/mol.
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