Photo-On-Demand Synthesis of α-Amino Acid N-Carboxyanhydrides with Chloroform. ACS Omega, 2022; DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.2c05299 ...

To do so, they dried down amino acid solutions containing boric acid and found that boric acid catalyzes polypeptide synthesis under neutral and acidic conditions.

Synthetic polypeptide and polymer chemistry has transformed biomaterials research by marrying the precision of organic synthesis with the complex functionalities of natural proteins.