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Investigation on the stability of the Dde protecting group used in peptide synthesis: migration to an unprotected lysine.

An investigation of the stability of the Dde protecting group for amines, used in solid-phase peptide synthesis, shows that an unprotected epsilon-NH2 group of lysine can acquire the Dde protection from another epsilon-NH2 group or from an alpha-NH2 group. An unprotected alpha-NH2, however, cannot remove Dde from an epsilon-NH2 function. This migration takes place during Fmoc removal from the epsilon-NH2 with piperidine and/or during the subsequent washing steps. The Dde migration is also possible in neat dimethylformamide by a direct nucleophilic attack of the free epsilon-NH2 group. Addition of piperidine to the reaction medium accelerates the side reaction, probably because of the formation of an unstable piperidine-Dde adduct. Dde migration can be prevented if the 9-fluorenylmethyloxycarbonyl is cleaved with 1,8-diazabicyclo[5.4.0]undec-7-ene for a short reaction time (2%, 3 x 3 min). Finally, this rearrangement is shown to occur both as an intra- and intermolecular reaction between peptides on the same resin bead.[1]

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