The Plant Science Student Conference (PSSC) has been organised by students from the two Leibniz institutes, IPK and IPB, every year for the last 20 years. In this interview, Christina Wäsch (IPK) and Carolin Apel (IPB)…
Over 600 guests came to the IPB on July 4 for the Long Night of Sciences to learn lots of new things and put their knowledge to the test at our science quiz course. This year, our program was aimed equally at children and…
Our 10th Leibniz Plant Biochemistry Symposium on May 7 and 8 was a great success. This year's theme was new methods and research approaches in natural product chemistry. The excellent presentations on active substances and…
Photoaffinity tags can be incorporated easily into peptoids and congeners by the Ugi and Passerini multicomponent reactions. Products related to photo-methionine and photo-leucine can be accomplished by diazirine-containing building blocks. The same protocols can be used to synthesize derivatives with benzophenone photo cross-linkers.
Publications
Braga, A. L.; Wessjohann, L. A.; Taube, P. S.; Galetto, F. Z.; de Andrade, F. M.;Straightforward Method for the Synthesis of Selenocysteine and Selenocystine Derivatives from L-Serine Methyl EsterSynthesis20103131-3137(2010)DOI: 10.1055/s-0030-1258188
A set of selenoamino acids has been efficiently synthesized under smooth conditions by a simple, flexible and modular strategy. In this method, O-mesylated l-serine methyl ester is generated in situ and directly substituted with various selenolate anions to afford selenocysteine, selenolanthionine, and selenocystine derivatives in good yields. Also, a tellurocysteine derivative can be obtained by this method.