Green and Sustainable Solvents for Solid-Phase Peptoid Synthesis
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Peptoids are a class of sequence-controlled polymers that provide a versatile platform for the design of bioinspired materials. Solid-phase synthetic methods offer absolute control over the polypeptoid sequence and have been optimized to improve reaction efficiency and versatility. However, these solid-phase strategies rely on the use of reprotoxic and restricted solvents, N,N-dimethylformamide (DMF) and N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone (NMP), resulting in significant hazardous solvent consumption and waste generation. Here we report the solid-phase synthesis of peptoids with complete elimination of DMF and NMP and their replacement with greener solvents and binary mixtures to minimize the environmental impact and improve the sustainability of peptoid synthesis. We investigate the resin swelling performance of the green solvents and show that the purity profile and yield of the final peptoids are not adversely affected when compared to those synthesized in traditional solid-phase solvents. Furthermore, we adapt these greener methods for use on automated synthesizers for the synthesis of peptoids with different sequences and longer chain lengths. The replacement of hazardous solvents in solid-phase peptoid synthesis represents an advance in the sustainability of peptoid research, which could improve the translation of peptoids from academic labs to industry.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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