Peptide Chemists

Peptide chemists usually come from the eupeptic end of the scale of human felicity, but anyone who performs the deprotection of a benzyl ester with 33% hydrogen bromide in acetic acid could be accused of brutality. That peptides survive is more a tribute to the molecules than the chemists who make them.

~Protecting Groups (Foundations of Org. Chem.), by Phillip Kocienski.