Electronic Supplementary Material (ESI) for Chemical Science This journal is © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2011 Supplementary Information Methods for converting cysteine to dehydroalanine on peptides and proteins Justin M. Chalker,a Smita B. Gunnoo,a Omar Boutureira,a Stefanie C. Gerstberger,a Marta Fernández-González,a Gonçalo J. L. Bernardes,a Laura Griffin,b Hanna Hailu,b Christopher J. Schofield,a and Benjamin G. Davis*a a Chemistry Research Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, 12 Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TA, UK b UCB Celltech, 208 Bath Road, Slough, Berkshire, SL1 3WE, United Kingdom
[email protected] S1 Electronic Supplementary Material (ESI) for Chemical Science This journal is © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2011 Table of Contents General considerations S4 Synthesis of AcCysOMe S6 Synthesis of methyl ester of Ellman’s reagent (4) S6 Synthesis of disulfide 3 S7 Reaction of 3 and HMPT S8 BocAlaCysOMe (7) synthesis S9 BocAlaDhaOMe (8) using reduction-elimination S11 Reaction of disulfide 3 with DBU S13 Reaction of AcCysOMe and Mukaiyama’s reagent S14 MSH synthesis S15 BocSerOMe synthesis S16 BocThrOMe synthesis S16 BocAsnOMe synthesis S17 BocGlnOMe synthesis S18 BocTyrOMe synthesis S18 BocTrpOMe synthesis S20 BocMetOMe synthesis S20 BocHisOMe synthesis S21 BocLysOMe synthesis S22 HCl•PheOMe synthesis S25 MSH reaction with BocSerOMe S26 MSH reaction with BocThrOMe S26 MSH reaction with BocAsnOMe S26 MSH reaction with BocGlnOMe S27 MSH reaction with BocTyrOMe S27 MSH reaction with BocTrpOMe S27 MSH