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Microwave irradiation has been successfully applied to a selective synthetic procedure for introducing molecular substituents on peptides, providing a noticeable reduction of the reaction time and also an increased crude peptide purity for some compounds.
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The authors thank Mr. Leopoldo Zona (National Research Council) for NMR technical assistance.
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Calce, E., De Luca, S. Microwave heating in peptide side chain modification via cysteine alkylation. Amino Acids 48, 2267–2271 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00726-016-2284-2
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