Copper-catalyzed azide-alkyne 1,3-dipolar reaction

Around the time that the copper-catalyzed azide-alkyne 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition (CuAAC) click reaction was emerging as a powerful tool for the constmction [110, 111] of MIMs, we became interested in using this reaction to prepare polyrotaxanes. Our first attempt turned up compelling evidence that the folded solid-state stmctures described in Sect. 2 also persist to a large extent in solution. 

To highlight the utility of the enantioselective azidation further, transformations of the resulting azides were carried out (Scheme 15.11). For example, an a-azido ester could be converted smoothly into a-amino ester by palladium-catalyzed hydrogenolysis, which may provide a useful method for the synthesis of highly substituted cx-amino acid derivatives. On the other hand, the copper-catalyzed azide-alkyne 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition (CuAAC), as a click reaction, has been... 

Copper-catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloadditions have become increasingly popular due to their almost quantitative formation of 1,4-substituted triazoles, regioselectively, and the remarkable functional group tolerance, which is important when dealing with peptides or peptidomimetics. The majority of publications on dipolar cycloaddition reactions in peptide chemistry has focused on the CuAAC and reported peptide bond isosteres, side-chain functionalization, glycoconjugation, macrocyclization and isotopic labeling of peptides. We will most likely see an inaeasing number of applications where peptides are modified by dipolar cycloadditions in the future. 

Triazoles are attractive compounds and widely used in materials, drugs, and bioconjugation chemistry [124-136]. 1,2,3-Triazoles could be synthesized by 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of azides with alkynes under thermal conditions via the activation of C-H bond of alkyne [137-141]. The developments of Click reaction, copper-catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloaddition (CuAAC), provide an efficient pathway for the synthesis of 1,2,3-triazoles [142, 135, 143, 144]. They have been well reviewed and we don t discuss it in detail in this chapter. 

Disubstituted 1,2,3-triazoles are exclusive products of copper catalyzed 1,3-dipolar cycloadditions of terminal alkynes to azides. A variety of substituents can be introduced in this way. Many examples of such reactions are discussed in Section 5.01.9. 

The copper-catalyzed 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of organic azides and alkynes (click chemistry) has been the subject of intense research due to wide functional group tolerance, operational ease, and clean formation of the 1,2,3-triazoles. These reactions are particularly amenable to microwave heating, and a host of new compounds and materials have been created using this methodology." -" ... 

The turning point for the above mentioned 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition occurred with the independent discovery that copper(I) not only promotes the speed of the reaction (often referred to as click reaction), but also improves regioselectivity. The copper(I)-catalyzed azide alkyne cycloaddition (CuAAC) of terminal alkenes with organic azides to yield 1,4-disubstituted 1,2,3-triazoles discovered by Meldal [51] and Sharpless [50] exhibits remarkably broad scope and exquisite selectivity [59,60]. The most prominent application of click reactions in recent years has been in drug research [61,62],... 

Copper-catalyzed 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of azides to alkynes has become the most popular click reaction, and is... 

As 1,4-disubstituted 1,2,3-triazoles are usually prepared through copper-catalyzed 1,3-dipolar cycloadditions of terminal alkynes with organic azides, the use of a single copper complex for a direct arylation-based sequential catalysis was probed. Thereby, a modular chemo- and regioselective synthesis of fully-substituted 1,2,3-triazoles was achieved (Scheme 9.43). Notably, the overall reaction involved the selective coupUng of four components through the formation of one C—C- and three C—N-bonds [58]. 

Metallic copper efficiently catalyzes azide-alkyne cycloadditions under ultrasound or simultaneous ultrasound/microwave irradiation. Ultrasound favors mechanical depassivation in reactions involving metals and enhances both mass and electron transfer from the metal to the organic acceptor. It has been applied to accelerate the preparation of 1,2,3-triazole phthalimides via a 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of phthalimidoethyl-azide [67]. 

A microwave-assisted three-component reaction has been used to prepare a series of 1,4-disubstituted-1,2,3-triazoles with complete control of regiose-lectivity by click chemistry , a fast and efficient approach to novel functionalized compounds using near perfect reactions [76]. In this user-friendly procedure for the copper(l) catalyzed 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of azides and alkynes, irradiation of an alkyl halide, sodium azide, an alkyne and the Cu(l) catalyst, produced by the comproportionation of Cu(0) and Cu(ll), at 125 °C for 10-15 min, or at 75 °C for certain substrates, generated the organic azide in situ and gave the 1,4-disubstituted regioisomer 43 in 81-93% yield, with no contamination by the 1,5-regioisomer (Scheme 18). 

Click chemistry has been used extensively since its introduction in organic chemistry, due to the high efficiency and technical simplicity of the reaction [40]. The most popular click reaction has been the copper-catalyzed dipolar cycloaddition of a terminal alkyne and an azide to form... 

Polystyrene-sulfonyl hydrazide resins 153 reacted with various amines to give regiospecifically 1,4-disubstituted-l,2,3-triazoles 154 via traceless cleavage reactions <04TL6129>. A library of peptidotriazoles were prepared by solid-phase peptide synthesis combined with a regiospecific copper(I)-catalyzed 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition between resin-bound alkynes and protected amino azides <04JCO312>. 

The most popular click reaction is Huisgen 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of azides to alkynes applicable to a very wide range of macro molecular architecture. It has been employed for the preparation of various polymer topologies including linear, star, hyperbranched, and H-shaped polymers. The general approach is illustrated in Scheme 70 for the preparation of linear block copolymer of EO with MMA and St. Anionically prepared PEO was functionalized with azide and used in copper-catalyzed click reaction with PMMA or PSt with alkyne moiety synthesized by using alkyne-flinctional ATRP initiator. It should be noted that alkyne functionality of hetero-functional ATRP initiator was protected with a trimethylsilyl... 

In the last few years, click reactions, as termed by Sharpless et al. [280] received attention due to their high specificity, quantitative yields, and good fidelity in the presence of most functional groups. The click chemistry reaction includes a copper-catalyzed Huisgen dipolar cycloaddition reaction between an azide and an alkyne leading to 1,2,3-triazole. Recent publications on this click reaction indicate that it is a useful method for preparation of functional polymers [281]. 

The mechanism of the CuAAC reaction was rst proposed by Meldal (Tomoe et al., 2002) and Sharpless (Rostovtsev et al., 2002) and later veri ed by computational methods by Sharpless (Himo et al., 2005) in a series of papers. The proposed catalytic cycle based on a concerted mechanism via a Cu-acetylide intermediate is shown in Fig. 12.7. The most effective variant of the catalyzed 1,3-dipolar azide-alkyne cycloaddition system uses terminal alkynes in combination with copper sulfate and sodium ascorbate. The sodium ascorbate reduces copper sulfate to Cu(I), which forms a Cu-acetylide by reaction with the terminal alkyne via an initial r-complex formation. The copper acetyhde formed is considerably more reactive toward the azide so that a rate enhancement of the 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition results (Englert et al., 2005). 

Though in case of the azide-alkyne 13-dipolar cycloaddition process, exclusively Cu(l) catalysts have been used (in 0.25-2 molcatalysts (Ru, Ni, Pd, and Pt salts) have also been employed. For Cu(l) catalysts, most methods directly use Cu(T) salts, while other methods generate Cu(I) by reduction of Cu(ll) salts with sodium ascorbate or metallic copper. The catalyzed cycloaddition reaction is experimentally simple, perfecdy rehable, quantitative, proceeds well in aqueous solutions under ambient conditions without protection from oxygen, requires only stoichiometric... 

A one-pot copper(I)-catalyzed tandem azidation of ort/io-bromo-benzyl(propargyl)amines and an azide-alkyne 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reaction, afforded [l,2,3]-triazolo[l,5-a][l,4]benzodiazepines (13T4331). 

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