Blog - Amino Acids

28/01/2026

PotM: A Tripeptide Pseudoproline Building Block

Pseudoprolines act as molecular hinges: introducing precise turns that disrupt early folding and reduce aggregation in challenging peptide sequences. Read on to learn how they work!
03/12/2025

Escaping Aggregation: Traceless Linkers for Hydrophobic Peptides

Struggling with aggregating peptides or poor solubility? Take the rescue route: introduce solubility tags with our removable linkers. Learn more about your linker choices in our blog.
03/12/2025

PotM: Small Dyes, Bright Colors

Solvatochromic dyes of our building blocks provide a fluorescent color palette that enables the integration of sensitive optical sensors into peptides, proteins, and other organic systems. 
08/10/2025

Advanced Side-Chain Protection with THP and Trt

Replace tBu with THP or Trt and give your amino acids a smarter protection, removable under milder acidic conditions to minimize side products. Learn more in our latest publication!
24/09/2025

Products for Green Peptide Chemistry

Recent years have seen major advances in greener peptide synthesis. To highlight such products, we introduced the category "Green Chemistry" on our website. 
27/08/2025

Enhance Your Expertise: New Flyer About Glycosylated Fmoc-Asn

Hot off the press - Discover our new flyer about glycosylated Fmoc-Asparagines for SPPS! Explore detailed information and practical tips - simply download it for free from our website knowledge base. 
30/07/2025

Extending the Serum Half-life of Therapeutic Peptides

Anchor your peptides: Unlock the secrets of defying protease attacks and extend the serum half-life of your next peptide medication. Our building blocks will help you to reach your goals. 
30/07/2025

Enzyme-Mediated Ligation

From fragments to full peptides - ligases like e.g., Sortase, Omniligase, enable efficient ligation and cyclization. Read our blog and learn how enzymatic tools can enhance your peptide synthesis.
02/07/2025

Sarcosine Oligomers as Building Blocks for SPPS

Optimize your drug delivery with non-immunogenic biodegradable PEG alternatives and discover strategies for synthesizing defined sarcosine oligomers for targeted drug conjugation.
23/04/2025

Photosensitive Nitroindoline Amino Acid Analogs

A photolabile anchor for SPPS that facilitates the synthesis of thioesters for native chemical ligation and which can be used to generate peptide chains fragmenting by flash photolysis. To discover NIC, read on!