“…An analysis of the reaction mixture of 2-(N-phthaloyl-13-alanyl)-l-oxybenzotriazole (IIIf) with DMAE 2 (1 : 2) performed by TLC (Silufol UV-254, chloroform-benzenemethanol, 9 : 1 : 1) showed that the "activated" amide IIIf is completely consumed within 45 rain. Such a high rate of the reaction between DMAE with III (as compared to that with p-nitrophenyl esters [3,4]) is quite expectable, since benzotriazole-l-oxy group exceeds the p-nitrophen0xy group 2 Besides the standard abbreviations recommended by the IUPAC-IUB Commission on biochemistry nomenclature [10, I 1] we use the following abbreviations: DMAE = 13-dimethylaminoethanol, 7-Abu = ~,-aminobutyric acid (GABA), ~-Aka = e-aminocaproic acid. …”