Boronic acid resins

The concept of immobilizing diol compounds with a boronic acid conjugated support as a sort of heterogeneous protecting group strategy is the antipode of the diol-based supports described in Section 1.4.2. Examples of such boronic acid matrices include polystyryl boronic acid resins (120) [500-502], the cellulose-derived support 121 [503], the methacrylic polymer 122 [504], and the polyacrylamide-supported nitroarylben-... 

Several pairs of cis- and tra j-diols have been separated on a poly(styryl-boronic acid) resin, and the procedure may be of use in carbohydrate chemistry. 

Boronic acids (69 and 70) (Fig. 45) with more than one boronic acid functionality are known to form a polymer system on thermolysis through the elimination of water.93 Specifically, they form a boroxine (a boron ring system) glass that could lead to high char formation on burning. Tour and co-workers have reported the synthesis of several aromatic boronic acids and the preparation of their blends with acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS) and polycarbonate (PC) resins. When the materials were tested for bum resistance using the UL-94 flame test, the bum times for the ABS samples were found to exceed 5 minutes, thereby showing unusual resistance to consumption by fire.94... 

In a more recent study, Wang and coworkers have discussed microwave-assisted Suzuki couplings employing a reusable polymer-supported palladium complex [141]. The supported catalyst was prepared from commercial Merrifield polystyrene resin under ultrasound Bonification. In a typical procedure for biaryl synthesis, 1 mmol of the requisite aryl bromide together with 1.1 equivalents of the phenyl-boronic acid, 2.5 equivalents of potassium carbonate, and 10 mg of the polystyrene-... 

Kiss [8] examined various techniques for the efficient separation and preconcentration of boron from marine sediments. Alkaline fusion with potassium carbonate was used to render boron reactive, even in the most resistant silicate minerals. Fusion cakes were extracted with water and borate was isolated by Amberlite XE-243 boron-selective resin. Borate was determined spectrophotometrically, following elution with 2 mol L 1 hydrochloric acid. Either the carminic acid complex (620nm), formed in sulphuric acid (94%) or sulphuric acetic acid (1 4), or the azomethine hydrogen ion association complex (415nm) formed at pH5.2, were used for borate measurement. 

Various polymer-bound (polystyrene-bound) oxazaboroHdine catalysts for the reduction of secondary alcohols were reported [128]. These can simply be prepared by condensation of the resin-bound boronic acid with chiral 1,2-amino alcohols. The best results as far as enatioselectivity is concerned were obtained with oxaza-borohdine (59) (Scheme 4.36). 

Farrall and Frechet recognized the possibility of forming polymer-bound boronic acids in 1976.66 Supported pnra-benzeneboronic acid groups were generated by direct lithiation of polystyrene, giving a para-lithio intermediate that could be used to generate a host of other resins also (Scheme 27). Conversion to the boronic acid was one of the more successful transformations. The purpose of this transformation was to allow the attachment of sugars to the solid phase via the boronate. 

Sphinx Pharmaceuticals101 patented successful Stille (with a resin-bound organostannane) and Suzuki (with a supported boronic acid) cross-couplings. In the same patent, they also reported a coupling of a phenylacety-lene with a resin-bound bromide wherein Pd(OAc)2 was the catalyst (Scheme 50). 

Boronic acids can be reversibly esterified with resin-bound diols (Figure 3.15). The resulting boronic esters are stable under the standard conditions of amide bond formation, but can be cleaved by treatment with water under acidic or neutral conditions to yield boronic acids. Treatment of the resin-bound boronic esters with alcohols yields the corresponding boronic esters [197]. Resin-bound boronic esters are suitable intermediates for the Suzuki reaction [198], Treatment with H202 leads to the formation of alcohols (Entry 8, Table 3.36), while treatment of resin-bound aryl boronates with silver ammonium nitrate leads to the conversion of the C-B bond into a C-H bond (Entry 14, Table 3.46). 

The resulting triazoles can be N-alkylated by treatment with alkyl halides (0.25 mol/L, 30 equiv., DMF, NaOH), but mixtures of the 1-alkylated and 2-alkylated triazoles are obtained [255]. 1,2,4-Triazoles have also been prepared from N-amino-amidines (amidohydrazones Entry 4, Table 15.20), which were prepared from resin-bound thioamides by S-alkylation with methyl triflate followed by treatment with hydrazine [256]. 1,2,4-Tri azoles undergo Michael addition to polystyrene-bound a-acetamido acrylates to yield triazole-derived a-amino acids (Entry 7, Table 15.20). Benzotriazoles have been N-arylated on insoluble supports by treatment with aryl-boronic acids in the presence of catalytic amounts of copper salts (Entry 8, Table... 

The addition of alcohols to alkenes is also catalyzed by boron trifluoride-hydrogen fluoride, but the reaction proceeds only under vigorous conditions and the yields are generally low.394 Recently, the etherification of alkenes has also been achieved industrially by using acidic montmorillonite395 and macroporous sulfuric acid resins (ion-exchange resins).396... 

The Suzuki coupling reaction is a powerful tool for carbon-carbon bond formation in combinatorial library production.23 Many different reaction conditions and catalyst systems have been reported for the cross-coupling of aryl triflates and aromatic halides with boronic acids in solution. After some experimentation, we found that the Suzuki cleavage of the resin-bound perfluoroalkylsulfonates proceeded smoothly by using [l,l -bis (diphenylphosphino)ferrocene]dichloropalladium(II), triethylamine, and boronic acids in dimethylformamide at 80° within 8 h afforded the desired biaryl compounds in good yields.24 The desired products are easily isolated by a simple two-phase extraction process and purified by preparative TLC to give the biaryl compounds in high purity, as determined by HPLC, GC-MS, and LC-MS analysis. 

Parrish and Buchwald30 performed couplings with a polystyrene-supported biphenyl-phosphine palladium complex between aryl halides and either amines (entry 24) or boronic acids (entry 25). The resin-bound complex is analogous to the corresponding homogeneous compound and is effective for couplings to unactivated aryl halides, including aryl chlorides. The complex is air-stable and retains activity after recovery without apparent loss of palladium. 

To expand the diversity of their libraries Brill et al.16 also modified various heterocycles by alkylation, acylation, or metal-mediated coupling reaction prior to resin capture. A remaining chloro substituent was still available for nucleophilic displacement or a palladium-mediated coupling reaction with anilines, phenols, and boronic acids on solid phase [see Fig. 10 for the preparation of purine derivative (62)]. 

An interesting polymer-assisted variant of the Suzuki-reaction was recently disclosed by Vaultier and coworkers (Scheme 17) [43]. Aryl boronic acids can be immobilized on an ion exchange resin. Under Suzuki-Miyaura coupling conditions bisaryl species are released into solution and isolated with minimum purification. The authors also demonstrated that this strategy can be employed for the synthesis of macroheterocycles. 

Of particular interest to combinatorial chemistry is the use of immobilised functionalised boronic acid templates which are capable of further transformations [20]. For instance, an aryl carboxylic acid 50 can be converted into the corresponding amide 51 (Scheme 12), whilst still being attached to the resin. Benzyl amine and butylamine were coupled efficiently to afford (after cleavage) the corresponding amides 52 in high yield (Scheme 12). 

Antimicrobial oxazolidinones were successfully synthesized with the help of single-mode microwave heating on a polystyrene resin. In this case, the use of commercial multimode ovens was associated with inconsistent yields and purities, presumably due to the nonhomogeneity of the heating and a lack of sufficient temperature and pressure controls. A representative reaction is presented in Scheme 61. These solid-supported reactions proceeded smoothly in 5-10 minutes, with the boronic acid added in six equivalents and a small library with variations in both the N-acyl and the biaryl functionalities was created [145]. 

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