Allyl-Based Linkers

The group of allyl-based linkers was developed by Kunz et al. [49] Linkers of the general allyl type are particularly valuable, because they are removable under almost neutral conditions using palladium catalysis and are orthogonally stable towards the commonly used acid and base-labile protecting groups (Tab. 3.2). 

New allylic anchors as the HYCRAM (19) (hydroxycrotonylamide) [50] and HY-CRON (21) (hydroxycrotyl-oligoefhylene glycol-n-alkanoyl) [51] linker have been developed, which exhibit excellent properties for the solid-phase synthesis of protected peptides and glycopeptides. A more flexible spacer was inserted in the HY-CRON (21) linker between the anchor and the polymeric support in order to facilitate an efficient access to the Pd(0) complex during the detachment reaction. 

Acetals and ketals are very important protecting groups in solution-phase synthesis, but only a few constructs have been used as linkers in solid-phase synthesis (Tab. 3.3). The THP-linker (22) (tetrahydropyran) was introduced by Ellman [54] in order to provide a linker allowing the protection of alcohols, phenols and nitrogen functionalities in the presence of pyridinium toluene sulfonate, and the resulting structures are stable towards strong bases and nucleophiles. Other acetal-linkers have also been used for the attachment of alcohols [55, 56]. Formation of diastereomers caused by the chirality of these linkers is certainly a drawback. Other ketal tinkers tike 

58] and ketones [59, 60], A linker (25) [61] using dithianes is suitable for ketones. 

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Allyl-based linkers are particularly suitable for attachment of carboxylic acids, which can be detached by metal catalysis, in particular by means of a palladium... 

Cleavage of polymer-bound allyl esters with palladium catalysts provides general access to 7i-allyl complexes, which can react with a variety of nucleophiles. This has been used in the development of re-allyl-based linkers. Ene-yne cross metathesis and subsequent cleavage in the presence of different nucleophiles yields the corresponding functionalized dienes 93 [93] (Scheme 6.1.19). 

Four recent examples of universal linkers/supports, in which the first nucleoside is anchored onto the preformed linker-support construct, are shown in Fig. 2.14. The disulfide linker 2.33 has been used to prepare terminal 3 -phosphate ONs (94, 95) through cleavage with a solution of ammonia in dithiothreitol. The photolabile linker 2.34 (96) is used to prepare 3 -alkyl carboxylic acids. The allyl-based linker 2.35 (97) is used to prepare free 3 -OH ONs by cleavage with Pd(0) and treatment with an aqueous buffer at pH 10. The linker 2.36 (98) differs from those discussed so far in... 

C.iii. Allyl-Based Linkers for Solid Phase Peptide Synthesis... 

The success of allyl-based protection for carboxylic acids led to the development of aUyl-based linkers for the attachment of peptides and glycopeptides to a soM support during their synthesis. Kunz developed the first allyl-based linker, hydroxycrotonamide (HYCRAM), in 1988. Displacement of the allylic bromide in the precursor by a car-boxylate nucleophile permits the attachment of the C-terminal residue to the soM support (Scheme 6). Peptide synthesis using this linker was performed with Boc as the N-terminal blocking group, and the final peptide or glycopeptide was cleaved from the allylic Unker... 

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. 

Trityl resins are particularly suitable for immobilization of nucleophilic substrates such as acids, alcohols, thiols, and amines. They are quite acid-sensitive and are cleavable even with acetic acid this is useful when acid-labile protecting groups are used. The stability of trityl resin can be tailored by use of substituted arene rings, as shown by chlorotrityl resin, which furnishes a more stable linker than the trityl resin itself. Steric hindrance also prohibits formation of diketopiperazines during the synthesis of peptides. Orthogonality toward allyl-based protective groups was demonstrated in the reverse solid-phase peptide synthesis of oligopeptides [30] (Scheme 6.1.4). 

An allyl carbonate linker 2k has been used [122] to synthesize pseu-doargipinine III on a 4-methylbenzhydrylamine base resin (to which alanine had been attached as a spacer and internal standard). The nitrophenylallyl carbonate was prepared from the allyl alcohol and used to anchor mono-protected diamines. During further synthetic steps the anchoring group was shown to be stable toward concentrated TEA solutions and piperidine but could be efficiently cleaved by Pd-catalyzed allyl transfer. 

Allylic hydroxycrotyl-oligoethylene glyco-n-alkanoyl (HYCRON) linker 25 was applied to the synthesis of protected peptides and glycopep-tides [31]. HYCRON is stable to both acidic and basic conditions and is compatible with Boc- and Fmoc-based chemistry. The preparation of this novel linker is only two steps from commercially available materials. H YCRON linker can be cleaved under neutral conditions using Pd catalyst (Scheme 9). 

Silyl-derived linker 36 was prepared in three steps from a silyl ether of serine and incorporated for Fmoc/tBu-based assembly of protected gly-copeptide blocks (Scheme 11) [42]. The a-carboxylic acid function of serine was protected as an allyl ester. Deprotection by a Pd(0) catalyst in the presence of dimedone liberated the carboxylic acid in order for subsequent... 

Allyl esters, carbonates, and carbamates readily undergo C-O bond cleavage upon reaction with palladium(O) to yield allyl palladium(II) complexes. These complexes are electrophilic and can react with nucleophiles to form products of allylic nucleophilic substitution. Linkers based on this reaction have been designed, which are cleavable by treatment with catalytic amounts of palladium complexes [165,166], For the immobilization of carboxylic acids, support-bound allyl alcohols have proven suitable (Figure 3.12, Table 3.7). 

Peptide cleavage from the allyl-linker resin is achieved with morpholine in large excess in the presence of tetrakis(triphenylphosphine)palladium (10mol% based on the allylic substitution of the resin). (3-HYCRAM resin is a modification of HYCRAM containing a P-alanine residue as a spacer between the crotonoyl unit and the resin. It has been used for the solid-phase synthesis of glycopeptides by the Boc and Fmoc strategies.b 1 Difficulties may be... 

Price et al. (Table 8, entry 44) [496] investigated several polystyrene-bound, proli-nol-based chiral auxilaries. The authors performed stereoselective a-allylation with support-bound, hydrolytically more stable propanylamide. The allylated product was then cleaved from the support by enantioselective, linker-induced iodolactoni-zation. The attachment sites of the chiral auxiliary had a profound impact on the stereoselectivity, which was found to be higher than with solution-phase chiral auxiharies. The highest enantioselectivity was achieved with a pseudo C2-symmet-ric auxihary. As solvation effects of polymer-supported substrates are currently still difficult to predict, it is hard to explain why in this case solid-support-bound chiral auxiliaries gave higher enantioselectivities than their solution analogs. 

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