Lecture “Metal Catalysis in Chemoselective Peptide Macrocyclization”

Lecture “Metal Catalysis in Chemoselective Peptide Macrocyclization”

The event passed
5 Oct 2023
Location
Online / Moscow, st. Ordzhonikidze 3, Hall 2 (room 708)
Subdirection: Chemistry
Format: Lecture
Contact person
Elena Knyazeva
About the event

On 5 October at 13:30 p.m. (Moscow time)

This lecture charts future perspective in the field, while bringing attention to the countless possibilities available by diversifying not only the metal, but also the reactivity modes and tactics to bring peptide functional groups together and produce structurally diverse macrocycles.

Speaker:

Daniel García Rivera — Full Professor, University of Havana (UH), Cuba.

Peptide macrocyclization has traditionally relied on lactam, lactone and disulfide bond-forming reactions that aim at introducing conformational constraints into small peptide sequences. With the advent of ruthenium-catalyzed ring-closing metathesis and cooper-catalyzed alkyne-azide cycloaddition, peptide chemists embraced transition metal catalysis as a powerful macrocyclization tool with relevant applications in chemical, biological and peptide drug discovery. This lecture provides a comprehensive overview of the reactivity and methodological diversification of metal-catalyzed peptide macrocyclization as a special class of late-stage peptide derivatization method. We report the evolution from classic palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling approaches to more modern oxidative versions based on C−H activation, heteroatom alkylation/arylation and annulation processes, in which aspects such as chemoselectivity and diversity generation at the ring-closing moiety became dominant over the last years. The transit from early cycloadditions and alkyne couplings as ring-closing steps to very recent 3d metal-catalyzed macrocyclization methods is highlighted. Similarly, the new trends in decarboxylative radical macrocyclizations and the interplay between photoredox and transition metal catalysis are included.

Participants: students, postgraduates and scientific-pedagogical workers of the faculty of Sciences of RUDN and other Universities.

Online

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