Several linear molecules containing the C alpha, alpha-diphenylglycine residue were prepared as potential anticonvulsants. The conformational preferences of the C alpha, alpha-diphenylglycine residue were assessed in these synthetic derivatives and dipeptides by X-ray diffraction, FTIR absorption and 1H NMR techniques, and by conformational energy computations. Five (out of six) derivatives adopt the fully extended C5 conformation in the crystal state. This intramolecularly H-bonded form is largely populated in chloroform solution in all the derivatives investigated. Conformational energy computations in vacuo support the view that the intramolecularly H-bonded C7-ring form is the most stable structure for these compounds. Only one linear derivative exhibits a (modest) anticonvulsant activity.
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