Andrew G. Roberts, Assistant Professor Chemistry at the University of Utah, will deliver a seminar entitled, "Chemical strategies for breaking and making carbon–nitrogen bonds." Hosted by Nate Traaseth.
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Abstract: I. C-N bond breaking: Amines are ubiquitous functional groups that are simple to prepare and functionalize. We show that tertiary amines can template reductive cyclization reactions, forming biaryl and bibenzyl carbon–carbon bonds. These cyclic amine products can undergo carbon–carbon bond-forming amine rearrangement and deaminative contraction reactions, providing efficient access to polycyclic (hetero)aromatics and related natural products. These strategies and our understanding of deaminative mechanisms will be presented. II. C-N bond making: Residue-selective methods for peptide modification and cyclization are useful for the development of therapeutic peptides with improved metabolic stability properties. The Roberts laboratory draws inspiration from cyclic peptide natural products that exhibit a host of promising biological properties. Motivated by the phenolic linkages found in both the arylomycin and vancomycin families of natural products, we have developed methods that leverage the in situ generation of 1,2,4-triazoline-3,5-dione moieties on native peptides to achieve tyrosine-selective cyclizations. Detailed accounts of these methods and their applications will be presented.
