| ATR | Attenuated Total Reflection |
| CBAA | Cyclobutane Amino Acid |
| DDS | Drug Delivery Systems |
| DIPEA | Diisopropylethylamine |
| DMAP | Dimethylaminopyridine |
| DMF | Dimethylformamide |
| DNA | Deoxyribonucleic Acid |
| ESI | Electrospray Ionization |
| HRMS | High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry |
| IR | Infrared |
| LMWG | Low Molecular-Weight Gelator |
| MS | Mass Spectrometry |
| NMR | Nuclear Magnetic Resonance |
| NPY | Neuropeptide Y |
| PyBOP | (Benzotriazol-1-yloxy)tripyrrolidinophosphonium hexafluorophosphate |
| QTOF | Quadrupole Time-of-Flight |
| TEA | Triethylamine |
| TFA | Trifluoroacetic Acid |
| THF | Tetrahydrofuran |
| TLC | Thin layer chromatography |