Abstract
This work is a part of a long-term project aiming to develop original oxaproline and oxadiazine-3,6-diones peptidomimetics with biological activities or potential folding properties. Especially, we proposed an access to various mimetics of the Pro-Leu-Gly-NH2 peptide (PLG), an allosteric modulator of the dopamine D2 receptor. The synthesized derivatives revealed to exhibit higher activity on striatum cells than the PLG initial reference.Moreover, our interest for the poorly described oxadiazine-3,6-diones (Oxd) scaffolds led us to access to a library of 1,2,4- and 1,2,5- Oxd, that we are able to efficiently insert into short peptide sequences with potential beta-turn inducing properties.Finally, during this Ph.D work, an unprecedented methodology for the chemoselective cleavage of protecting groups was developed. Using MgI2 in THF under microwave irradiations, this strategy highlighted novel orthogonalities such as the conservation of the Fmoc protecting group during ethyl or methyl ester deprotection, or even, during the Merrifield resin cleavage.