Visible Light-Mediated Enantioselective Alkylation Using a Deaminative Approach: Access to Unnatural Amino Acids and Peptides
) bond formation. While deamination strategies are well explored, asymmetric variants remain underdeveloped. This methodology addresses that gap, delivering high enantioselectivity across a broad substrate scope, including natural product-derived and conformationally constrained scaffolds. The protocol is further applied to the synthesis of unnatural amino acid analogues and polypeptides without a loss of enantiopurity, demonstrating its utility and robustness in asymmetric synthesis.
Authors
- Diksha Gambhir (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7324-4976)
- Ravi Prakash Singh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5323-5979)
- Shreya Tewari
- Shashank Singh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7908-4272)
- Altaf Ansari
Institutions
- Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Organic Letters
- Published
- 2026-07-17
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.orglett.6c02280
- Primary Topic
- Radical Photochemical Reactions
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India
- Science and Engineering Research Board
- Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences