Synthetic Study on Peptide Antibiotic Nisin. III. Synthesis of Ring C

K Fukase, M Kitazawa, T Wakamiya…

Index: Fukase; Kitazawa; Wakamiya; Shiba Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, 1990 , vol. 63, # 6 p. 1838 - 1840

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Abstract

A cyclic sulfide moiety corresponding to ring C in peptide antibiotic nisin was successfully synthesized from a disulfide compound prepared from a heptapeptide involving L-cysteine and threo-3-methyl-D-cysteine through desulfurization reaction with hexaethylphosphorus triamide.