Diastereotopic fluorine substituents as 19F NMR probes of screw-sense preference in helical foldamers

Sarah J. Pike, Matteo De Poli, Wojciech Zawodny, James Raftery, Simon J. Webb, Jonathan Clayden

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    Abstract

    Ligating simple amino alcohol or amino ester monomers containing enantiotopic fluorine substituents to the C-terminus of a helical peptide places the fluorine atoms in diastereotopic environments, and gives two distinct and easily identifiable signals in the 19F NMR spectrum. In the case of a dynamically inverting helix built from achiral monomers, the chemical shift separation between the 19F signals provides a simple means of analysing the ratio of screw-sense conformers in the oligomer, in cases where an asymmetric bias leads to a screw-sense preference. © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2013.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)3168-3176
    Number of pages8
    JournalOrganic and Biomolecular Chemistry
    Volume11
    Issue number19
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2013

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