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. 2017 Feb 15;56(13):3718–3722. doi: 10.1002/anie.201611547

Scheme 1.

Scheme 1

Protein‐templated amide bond formation. The reaction of an activated carboxylic acid derivative (yellow) with a nucleophilic amine fragment (green) occurs only in the presence of the protein target by a non‐catalytic mechanism (templated reaction, bottom) whereas the non‐templated background reaction (top) does not proceed.