Synthesis of a beta-turn forming depsipeptide for hydrogen bond mediated electron transfer studies

David A. Williamson, Bruce E. Bowler

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Abstract

Hydrogen bonds are believed to play an important role in the mediation of electron transfer processes in proteins. A porphyrin/depsipeptide/p-benzoquinone molecule has been synthesized to help understand this role of hydrogen bond mediated electron transfer in proteins. The synthesis, room temperature folding conformation, and steady-state electron transfer are described.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)12357-12372
Number of pages16
JournalTetrahedron
Volume52
Issue number38
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 16 1996

Funding

We wish to thank Eunice York in John Stewart's lab at the University of Colorado-Health Science Center for the use of their MALDITOF mass spectrometer and Julian Sprague at NREL for his willingness to help with the TCSPC fluorescence lifetime work. We would also like to thank Louis Carpino (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) and Sam GeUman (University of Wisconsin, Madison) for helpful synthetic discussions. Acknowledgement is made to the Donors of the Petroleum Research Fund, administered by the American Chemical Society for partial support of this research.

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American Chemical Society

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