“…Although the protected derivatives are the safest way to incorporate Ser, Thr, or Hyp into the peptide sequence, they can also be used with the free hydroxyl functionality. Protection is more necessary in SPS, because an excess of acylating agents is used, and for Ser, whose primary alcohol is more prone to acylation than the secondary alcohols of Thr and Hyp, which have been successfully used without protection in several syntheses, including solid phase. , Nevertheless, there are also some reports of the successful use of unprotected Ser in solution-phase synthesis, but care must be taken when choosing the activating agents. , …”