Development of an efficient and low-cost protocol for the manual PNA synthesis by Fmoc chemistry

An efficient and low-cost protocol for the manual synthesis of Peptide Nucleic Acids is reported here. The protocol relies on coupling reactions carried out with 2.5 equiv of PNA monomers activated with HOBT/HBTU, in the presence of pyridine/NMM. The protocol has been tested on four PNA oligomers with a length ranging from 9 to 12 bases and a purine content up to 67%. © 2010 Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.