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ReviewNature communications2024

Challenges and recent advancements in the synthesis of α,α-disubstituted α-amino acids.

Yu Zhang, Jaro Vanderghinste, Jinxin Wang, Shoubhik Das

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Review in Nature communications, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed.

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  10. Turn-Induction in Peptides Incorporating Novel Cyrene-Derived α,α-Disubstituted Amino Acid.Journal of peptide science : an official publication of the European Peptide Society · 2026
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  12. EDA Complex-Driven Desaturation of Heterocyclic Carbonyl Compounds Enabled by HFIP.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Yu ZhangShanghai Frontiers Science Center for Chinese Medicine Chemical Biology, Institute of Interdisciplinary Integrative Medicine Research, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, No. 1200, Cailun Road, 201203, Shanghai, China. yzhang@shutcm.edu.cn.ORCID 0000-0002-7230-3575
Jaro VanderghinsteDepartment of Chemistry, University of Antwerp, Groenenborgerlaan 171, 2020, Antwerpen, Belgium.
Jinxin WangShanghai Frontiers Science Center for Chinese Medicine Chemical Biology, Institute of Interdisciplinary Integrative Medicine Research, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, No. 1200, Cailun Road, 201203, Shanghai, China.
Shoubhik DasDepartment of Chemistry, University of Antwerp, Groenenborgerlaan 171, 2020, Antwerpen, Belgium. Shoubhik.Das@uni-bayreuth.de.ORCID 0000-0002-4577-438X

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

α,α-Disubstituted α-amino acids (α-AAs) have improved properties compared to other types of amino acids. They serve as modifiers of peptide conformation and as precursors of bioactive compounds. Therefore, it has been a long-standing goal to construct this highly valuable scaffold efficiently in organic synthesis and drug discovery. However, access to α,α-disubstituted α-AAs is highly challenging and largely unexplored due to their steric constraints. To overcome these, remarkable advances have been made in the last decades. Emerging strategies such as synergistic enantioselective catalysis, visible-light-mediated photocatalysis, metal-free methodologies and CO

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Amino AcidsDrug DiscoveryCatalysisChemistry Techniques, SyntheticMolecular ConformationAmino Acids

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PMID38368416
PMCPMC10874380

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