Abstract
Under the normal conditions of acidolytic cleavage/deprotection of tris(alkoxy)benzylamide (PAL) anchoring linkages in Fmoc solid-phase peptide synthesis (SPPS), product release occurs by a straightforward single-step pathway. A recently reported cleavage of the NH--alpha CH bond of an amino acyl residue adjacent to PAL [see Int. J. Peptide Protein Res. 38, 146-153 (1991)] could not be confirmed in novel experiments incorporating a double "internal reference" amino acid (IRAA) design. The results of the present work revalidate the widely accepted application of IRAAs to monitor yields in SPPS, and confirm the reliability of PAL methodology for the preparation of C-terminal peptide amides.

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