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Metallo-foldamers with backbone-coordinative oxime peptides: control of secondary structures
Shohei Tashiro1, Koji Matsuoka, Ai Minoda
1Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan.
Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English)
|November 17, 2012
Abstract:
Metal-mediated secondary structures of peptide-based foldamers were constructed using artificial backbone-coordinative oxime peptides. Complexation of the peptides with Pd(II) afforded several mononuclear and dinuclear secondary structures such as helices and hairpins as confirmed by single-crystal XRD and NMR analyses.
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