The S-ethylmercapto group was an useful protecting group for the thiol group of cysteine. This group was stable under the conditions of peptide synthesis and was simply split by thiophenol without any side reaction. Glutathione and oxytocin were synthesized using S-ethylmercapto-l-cysteine.
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