Marija Matkovi´c

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Abstract

Diarylethene (DAE) molecular photoswitches draw attention as building units in the preparation of diverse photoactive molecules. An interesting class of these molecules are photoactive peptides. A way to build DAE moiety into peptides/peptidomimetics is via DAE amino acids, an example of which has been demonstrated in bioactive cyclic peptides, wherein the DAE Fmoc-amino acid was prepared and used. Herein, the preparation of DAE Boc-amino acid is presented using a modified method of synthesis. This contribution to the DAE amino acid collection could be useful in the further enhancement of diversity in designing different routes to photoactive peptides.

Keywords

molecular photoswitches ; diarylethene amino acids ; photoactive peptides

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