NOBUTAK A FUJII,a AKIRA OTAKA,a OSAMU IKEMURA,a MIKA HATANO,a AKIRA OKAMACHI,a SUSUMU FUNAKOSHI,a MITSUYA SAKURAI,a TAKAYUKI SHIOIRI,b and HARUAKI YAJIMA*,a ... Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University,a Kyoto 606, Japan and Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nagoya City University,b Mizuho-ku, Nagoya 467, Japan ... The use of trimethylsilyl trifluoromethanesulfonate as a peptide deprotecting reagent was