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Chemical Ligation is a set of techniques used for creating long peptide or protein chains. It is the second step of a convergent approach. First smaller peptides containing 30-50 amino acids are prepared by conventional chemical peptide synthesis. They are then completely deprotected. Chemical ligation is the technique of selectively coupling these peptides in aqueous solution. With several coupling steps, proteins of up to 200-300 amino acids can be produced.