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La Trobe University
Science, Technology and Engineering

Honours Projects 2010

Dr Andrew Hughes


Peptide dimers chemistry

(with Prof. Seb Marcuccio, AMT)

The company Advanced Molecular Technologies is interested in extending their catalogue of compounds. The chemistry found in our department for the manufacture of N-methyl amino acids can be extended to provision of dipeptides having the N-methyl amino acid in the dimer. There is a large number of potential dimers possible (approx. 400). The project can also look at new reactions of 5-oxazolidinones.