Reactions of C‐terminal ω‐amino acid residues in liquid hydrogen fluoride

Abstract
The benzyl-ester bond linking the C-terminal δ-aminovaleric acid residue of a peptide to a polymeric support was cleaved with liquid hydrogen fluoride in the presence of anisole, added as scavenger. Instead of the expected peptide with a free carboxyl group at the C-terminus, a peptide terminating in a ketone derivative was obtained. The unusual extent of this known side-reaction was attributed to the effect of the distance between the amino group and the carboxyl group in the C-terminal residue. The results of model experiments corroborated this view.

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