Acids Cleavable by Transition Metal Catalysis

4 Linkers for Acids Cleavable by Transition Metal Catalysis 

Benzyl alcohol linkers, such as those described in Section 3.1.1.1, can also be cleaved by palladium-catalyzed hydrogenolysis. Carboxylic acids have, for example, been obtained by hydrogenolysis of insoluble benzyl esters with Pd(OAc)2/DMF/H2 [89,161]. Resin-bound benzylic carbamates [162,163] and amides [164] can also be released by treatment with Pd(OAc)2 in DMF in the presence of a hydrogen source, such as 1,4-cyclohexadiene or ammonium formate. These reactions are quite surprising, because they require the formation of metallic palladium within the gelated beads. 

The two most commonly used types of allyl alcohol linker are 4-hydroxycrotonic acid derivatives (Entry 1, Table 3.7) and (Z)- or ( )-2-butene-l, 4-diol derivatives (Entries 2 and 3, Table 3.7). The former are well suited for solid-phase peptide synthesis using Boc methodology, but give poor results when using the Fmoc technique, probably because of Michael addition of piperidine to the a, 3-unsaturated carbonyl compound [167]. Butene-l,4-diol derivatives, however, are tolerant to acids, bases, and weak nucleophiles, and are therefore suitable linkers for a broad range of solid-phase chemistry. 

Entry Loaded resin Cleavage conditions Product, yield (purity) 

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