To provide a method for purifying peptides or
peptide nucleic acids produced by
solid-phase
peptide synthesis in a way that is inexpensive and is less prone to faults, and
linker molecules for use in the purification.SOLUTION: The present invention relates to
linker molecules of formula (1), X-Tb-Va-U-Y-Z (1) and a method for purifying peptides using the
linker molecules. The linker molecule can be coupled to a purification resin via the
moiety X and to
a peptide via the
moiety Y under the release of the
leaving group Z. T is an optional spacer
moiety and V is an optional
electron withdrawing moiety. U is an
aryl or 5- or 6-membered heteroaryl moiety bound to at least one
electron withdrawing moiety V, W, or E. The linker is stable under acidic conditions and releases the
peptide upon addition of a
reducing agent.SELECTED DRAWING: None