Blocking groups, acid labile

The selectivity and mildness of the Pd(0)-catalyzed deprotection of allyl (All) esters and the allyloxycarbonyl (Aloe) urethanes117 181 reaction also allowed for the successful and efficient application of this blocking group technology in the synthesis of acid- and base-labile lipidated pepti-... 

In order to investigate dendrimers of a different nature [230], Bradley described the synthesis and transfection efficiency of polyamidourea dendrimers synthesised from isocyanate-containing AB3 monomers [231-234]. The use of this kind of tris-branched building block was addressed to enhance dendrimer synthesis by replacement of the 1,4-addition step typical of PAMAM synthesis and to a rapid increase in terminal functionality. The dendritic structures were synthesised using a divergent, microwave-assisted, solid-phase approach with the dendrimers assembled on polystyrene resin via an acid labile linker (see Fig. 26). In particular, a G3.0 polyamidourea bis-dendron with the peripheral amino groups conjugated to L-lysine residues demonstrated remarkable transfection abilities [234],... 

The use of the Fmoc-protected 4-nitrophenyl carbamate building blocks and resins with acid-labile linkers allows synthesis of the final products with C-terminal carboxylic acid or amide groups (Fig. 6). Unfortunately, Fmoc solid-phase synthesis of oligourea peptidomimetics with C-terminal carboxylic acid also leads to formation of corresponding hydantoin byproducts (53-56) (Fig. 7). In this case hydantoin formation arises as a result of an acid-catalyzed intramolecular cyclizafion reaction. It has been reported that the ratio of desired oligourea pepfidomimetic acid product and hydantoin byproduct is approximately 2 1 (53). However, these two compounds are in principle separable by preparative HPLC. 

Carreira s opening retrosynthetic move on zaragozic acid C disengaged its C(6) O-acyl side chain, and blocked its three carboxyls as acid-labile /-butyl esters (Scheme 7.1). The C(7)-hydroxyl was then protected as an acid-labile /-butyl carbonate group to provide compound 1 as a subtarget. Carreira felt that protection of this hydroxyl was necessary because previous work on 0(6)-deacylated zaragozic acid had shown that the C(7)-OH was more susceptible to O-acylation, possibly for electronic reasons. The same study also revealed that the C(4) tertiary OH could be left unmasked during such a forward acylation. 

This is the most widely used class of SP linkers. Historically, the SPS of peptides (see Section 2.1) was developed using building blocks protected with acid-labile groups, thus allowing a convenient simultaneous cleavage and deprotection in the final step of the synthesis. Four commercially available acid-labile linkers are depicted in Fig. 1.7 in resin- and compound-bound forms. The preferred cleavage conditions for each linker are also provided. 

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