Synthesis of Fluorinated Amino Acids and Their Derivatives in Flow
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Synthesis of Fluorinated Amino Acids and Their Derivatives in Flow Inaugural-Dissertation to obtain the academic degree Doctor rerum naturalium (Dr. rer. nat) submitted to the Department of Biology, Chemistry and Pharmacy of Freie Universität Berlin by Stella Vukelić From Zagreb, Croatia July, 2016 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ This work was performed between October 2012 and April 2016 under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Beate Koksch and Prof. Dr. Peter H. Seeberger in the Department of Biomolecular Systems, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces Potsdam and the Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Universität Berlin. I hereby declare that this PhD thesis was prepared autonomously. Content, quotes or images previously published by third parties are indicated by referring to the original work. The work presented in this dissertation resulted in the following publications: • Stella Vukelić, Kerry Gilmore, Beate Koksch, Peter H. Seeberger, “A Sustainable Semi- Continuous Flow Synthesis of Hydantoins”, Eur. J. Of Chem. A, 2016, DOI: 10.1002/chem.201602609. • Stella Vukelić, Johann Moschner, Susanne Huhmann, Rita Fernandes, Allison Ann Berger, Beate Koksch, “Synthesis of side-chain fluorinated amino acids and their effect on biophysical properties of peptides and proteins in “Modern Synthetic Routes and Reactivity of Fluorinated Compounds”, H. Groult, F. Leroux & A. Tressaud, Eds., Elsevier, in press. • Stella Vukelić, Dmitry B. Ushakov, Kerry Gilmore, Beate Koksch, Peter H. Seeberger, “Flow Synthesis of Fluorinated Amino Acids”, Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2015, 14, 3036-3039. 1st reviewer: Prof. Dr. Beate Koksch 2nd reviewer: Prof. Dr. Peter H. Seeberger Date of oral defense: November 18th 2016 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ To my grandad ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Acknowledgements First, I wish to express my gratitude to Professor Beate Koksch for giving me the opportunity to do my PhD research as a part of her group. I am thankful for the trust to develop and pursue my own ideas and for the opportunity to attend international conferences. Further, I want to thank Professor Peter H. Seeberger for hosting me at the Biomolecular Systems and for giving me the opportunity to work as a part of the Flow subgroup. I am grateful to Professor Tyler D. McQuade for accepting and welcoming me to the Flow group at the very start and Dr. Kerry Gilmore for the guidance, support and understanding from the beginning until the end of my PhD studies. Thank you Dr. Camille A. Correia, Dr. Allison A. Berger, Dr. Diego Ghislieri, Dr. Anna Chentsova, Rita Fernandes and Matt Plutschack for proof reading the thesis and Dr. Bart Pieber for help with translation of my summary to german. I am grateful that I had the chance to have worked with Dr. Dmitry B. Ushakov, Dr. Camille A. Correia, Dr. Diego Ghislieri and Matt Plutschack. Dmitry B., thank you for the guidance, patience and support. Camille and Diego, thank you for the endless chemistry and life advice and for the constant encouragement and support. Matt, thank you for all the help and advice, writing the thesis without your help would be a struggle. I learned a lot from you and without you guys, lab days would not be nearly as fun. I was also lucky to have met and spent time with other wonderful people from the Seeberger group, both past and the present members who made my graduate life more fun. Thank you Rita, Jason and Elsa for the friendship and love you sent from FU. I would like to acknowledge the staff. Thank you Olaf Niermeyer and Fabian Klautzsch for your help with NMR and HRMS. Thank you Günther Hasselof for the help with building our flow equipment. Thank you Dorothee Böhme for all the help with administration. Finally, I would like to thank my croatian support team, my friends and my family. I am always indebt to these people. I would have never made it without their love and encouragement. Thank you for not giving up on me, even when I gave up myself. The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination Albert Einstein ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ List of Publications Scientific Publications and Book Chapters Stella Vukelić, Kerry Gilmore, Beate Koksch, Peter H. Seeberger, “A Sustainable Semi- Continuous Flow Synthesis of Hydantoins”, Eur. J. Of Chem. A, 2016, DOI: 10.1002/chem.201602609. Stella Vukelić, Johann Moschner, Susanne Huhmann, Rita Fernandes, Allison Ann Berger, Beate Koksch, “Synthesis of side-chain fluorinated amino acids and their effect on biophysical properties of peptides and proteins in “Modern Synthetic Routes and Reactivity of Fluorinated Compounds”, H. Groult, F. Leroux & A. Tressaud, Eds. Elsevier, in press. Stella Vukelić, Dmitry B. Ushakov, Kerry Gilmore, Beate Koksch, Peter H. Seeberger, “Flow Synthesis of Fluorinated Amino Acids”, Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2015, 14, 3036-3039. o Featured in an interview by ChemistryViews: http://www.chemistryviews.org/details/ezine/ 7956531/FlowSynthesis_of_Fluorinated_Amino_Acids.html Kerry Gilmore, Stella Vukelić, D. Tyler McQuade, Beate Koksch, Peter H. Seeberger, “Continuous Reductions and Reductive Aminations Using Solid NaBH4”, Org. Process Res. Dev. 2014, 18, 1771-1776. o Featured in C&E News (cen.acs.org) 24.11.2014 “Sodium Borohydride Goes With The Flow”, November 24, 2014 (92(47)). Jyotirmoy Maity, Ulla I. M. Gerling, Stella Vukelić, Andreas Schäfer, Beate Koksch, “Proline-glutamate chimera's side chain conformation directs the type of β-hairpin structure”, Amino Acids 2014, 46, 177-186. Scientific Conferences and Symposia 18th European Symposium on Fluorine Chemistry, Kiew; Ukraine (2016), Synthesis of Hydantoins in Flow, poster presentation. JungChemikerForum Berlin, Berlin, Germany, (2016), Synthesis of Hydantoins in Flow, oral presentation. Gordon Conference, Organic Reactions and Processes, Lewiston, USA (2015), Flow Synthesis of Fluorinated Amino Acids, poster presentation. Tetrahedron Conference, Berlin, Germany, (2015), Flow Synthesis of Fluorinated Amino Acids, poster presentation. JungChemikerForum Berlin, Berlin, Germany, (2015), Flow Synthesis of Fluorinated Amino Acids, oral presentation. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ JungChemikerForum Frühjahrssymposium, Münster, Germany, (2015), Flow Synthesis of Fluorinated Amino Acids, oral presentation. Fluor21 ITN 1st Training Workshop, Prague, Czech Republic, (2015), Flow Synthesis of Fluorinated Amino Acids, oral presentation. MPI Ringberg Conference; Automation in Chemistry, Ringberg, Germany, (2014), Towards Flow Synthesis of Fluorinated Amino Acids, oral presentation. Croatian Meeting of Chemists and Chemical Engineers, Osijek, Croatia, (2013), Flow Synthesis of Fluorinated Amino Acids, poster presentation ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Table of Contents Table of Contents ..................................................................................................................................... i List of Abbreviations ............................................................................................................................... 1 Summary ................................................................................................................................................. 3 Zusammenfassung ................................................................................................................................... 5 1. General Significance of Fluorination of Organic Molecules............................................................... 7 1.1 Fluorinated Amino Acids and Their Significance ......................................................................... 7 1.2 Fluorine in Natural Products ........................................................................................................