Several workers have synthesized chiral and achiral
N, N'-ethylene-bridged dipeptides (piperazin-2-one derivatives), and used them mainly as units of biologically active pseudopeptides such i : as enkephalin analogs because these structurally constrained and lipophilic dipeptides afford the character resisting enzymatic hydrolysis to biologically active peptides. However, their synthetic methods have some problems (nonstereoselective, multi-steps, troublesome techniques, expensive reagents
etc.) Therefore; we have developed more convenient procedures for preparing
N, N'-ethylene-bridged dipeptides. This article reports four kinds of synthetic methods of chiral
N, N'-ethylene-bridged dipeptides, in which various (
R) or (
S) -α-amino acids are used as starting materials. Moreover, a series of studies on the structures and the functionalities (enantioselective inclusion and transport of (
R) - and (
S) -ammonium salts, complexing of metal ions) of macrocyclic pseudopeptides and on the enkephalin- and dermorphin-like biological activities of linear pseudopeptides containing these dipeptides as their units are introduced and discussed. Also, the synthesis of a macrocyclic polyamine obtained by the BH
3 reduction of macrocyclic pseudopeptide and the structure of its metal complex ion are described.
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