Hirokazu Tamamura, Tsunehito Ishihara, Hiromi Oyake, Makoto Imai, Akira Otaka, Toshiro Ibuka, Rieko Arakaki, Hideki Nakashima, Tsutomu Murakami, Michinori Waki, Akiyoshi Matsumoto, Naoki Yamamoto and Nobutaka Fujii
A one-pot synthesis of cystine-containing peptides is achieved by treatment of protected peptidyl resins with trimethylsilyl chloride–dimethyl sulfoxide/trifluoroacetic acid in the presence of anisole. This methodology has been successfully applied to the synthesis of highly active anti-HIV peptides conjugated with 3′-azido-3′-deoxythymidine.