Coupling, active esters

Coupling, active ester Bis-(2,4-dinitrophenyl)carbonate. Chloroacetonitrile. Di(p-nitrophenyl)carbonate. 2-Ethoxypyridine-l-oxide. p-Nitrobenzyl tosylate. p-Nitrophenol. p-Nitrophenyl trifluoroacetate. Pentachlorophenol. Phenyltrimethylammonium ethoxide. Phosgene. Pyrazole. Sulfur dioxide-Dimethylformamide. Tetraethyl pyrophosphite. N,N -Thionyldiimidazole. 2,4,S-Trichlorophenol. 

With the dicyclohexylcarbodiimide (DCQ reagent racemization is more pronounced in polar solvents such as DMF than in CHjCl2, for example. An efficient method for reduction of racemization in coupling with DCC is to use additives such as N-hydroxysuccinimide or l-hydroxybenzotriazole. A possible explanation for this effect of nucleophilic additives is that they compete with the amino component for the acyl group to form active esters, which in turn reaa without racemization. There are some other condensation agents (e.g. 2-ethyl-7-hydroxybenz[d]isoxazolium and l-ethoxycarbonyl-2-ethoxy-l,2-dihydroquinoline) that have been found not to lead to significant racemization. They have, however, not been widely tested in peptide synthesis. 

A83543A aglycon 595 f. acetic acid 5 acetoxonium ion 538, 762 acetoxymercuration 390 acetylene coupling 268, 275 f. active ester 624 P-acylamino a,p-unsaturated system 111... 

Now, it is widely known that proline at the N-terminal position causes problems of steric hindrance by using active ester couplings in the polycondensation step as well as in the synthesis of the tri- or hexapeptides. This is often a stringent restriction also if proline or glycine are intended to be in the C-terminal position. 

Activated esters for use in peptide-coupling reactions were produced by photolysis of optically active chromium aminocarbenes with alcohols which are good leaving groups, such as phenol, pentafluorophenol, 2,4,5-trichlorophenol, and N-hydroxysuccinimide (Table 17) [ 109]. Since arylcarbenes bearing the op-... 

The ODNs used here were prepared on an automated DNA synthesizer and with the standard j6-cyanoethyl phosphoramidite coupling reaction. The ferrocenyl ODN (T12Fc) was synthesized by the coupling of amino-terminated ODN with the activated ester of ferrocenecarboxylic acid. A 16 mer ODN (el6S), which has five successive phosphorothioate units on its 5 -terminus, was synthesized using Beaucage s reagent... 

At the present time, the coupling is usually done via an activated ester (see Section 3.4). The coupling reagent and one of several A-hydroxy heterocycles are first allowed to react to form the activated ester, followed by coupling with the depro-tected amino group. The most frequently used compounds are A-hydroxysuccinimide, 1-hydroxybenzotriazole (HOBt), and l-hydroxy-7-azabenzotriazole (HOAt).47... 

In continuing efforts, the same authors constructed tris(galactoside)-modified DAB dendrimers by the accelerated convergent strategy. In this particular approach, the saccharides were connected first to a small TRIS branching derivative to form a cluster which served as a building block, once suitably functionalized.417 N-Succini-midyl-activated ester 561 was then coupled onto G(l) and G(2)-PPI dendrimers with... 

The carbodiimide of choice used to couple cystamine to carboxylate- or phosphate-containing molecules is most often the water-soluble carbodiimide, EDC hydrochloride Chapter 3, Section 1.1). This reagent rapidly reacts with carboxylates or phosphates to form an active ester intermediate, which is highly reactive toward primary amines. The reaction is efficient from pH 4.7 to 7.5, and a variety of buffers may be used, providing they don t contain competing groups. 

Figure 3.3 EDC may be used in tandem with sulfo-NHS to create an amine-reactive protein derivative containing active ester groups. The activated protein can couple with amine-containing compounds to form amide bond linkages.

Since the active ester end of the molecule is subject to hydrolysis (half-life of about 20 minutes in phosphate buffer at room temperature conditions), it should be coupled to an amine-containing protein or other molecule before the photolysis reaction is done. During the initial coupling procedure, the solutions should be protected from light to avoid decomposition of the phenyl azide group. The degree of derivatization should be limited to no more than a 5- to 20-fold molar excess of sulfo-SBED over the quantity of protein present to prevent possible precipitation of the modified molecules. For a particular protein, studies may have to be done to determine the optimal level of modification. 

Three main forms of amine-reactive AMCA probes are commonly available. One of them is simply the free acid form of AMCA, which can be used to couple to amine-containing molecules using the carbodiimide reaction (Chapter 3, Section 1.1). The other two are active-ester derivatives of AMCA—the water-insoluble NHS ester and the water-soluble sulfo-NHS ester forms—both of which spontaneously react with amines to create stable amide linkages. All of them react under mild conditions with primary amines in proteins and other molecules to form highly fluorescent derivatives. 

For a more representative investigation, the authors synthesized a fragment of the acyl carrier protein (6S 74ACP) using preformed active esters in N,N-dimethyl-formamide [22]. Each coupling step required only 4 min of irradiation in a modified domestic oven with an average coupling yield of >99% (Scheme 7.2). 

The earliest published example of microwave-assisted SPOS involved diisopropyl-carbodiimide (DlC)-mediated solid-phase peptide couplings [24], Numerous Fmoc-protected amino acids and peptide fragments were coupled with glycine-preloaded polystyrene Wang resin (PS-Wang) in DMF, using either the symmetric anhydride or preformed N-hydroxybenzotriazole active esters (HOBt) as precursors (Scheme 12.1). 

In acetonitrile only the addition step was found to give useful kinetic data (480 nm protonated amine absent) (69) and the more bulky amines were again slower to react (Table XII). The two sets of data (Tables XI, XII) confirm the order Gly > (S)-Ala > (S)-Phe > (S)-Val for both the chelated active ester (R) and amine nucleophile (R ), although differences (apart from the Gly-GlyOMe couplings) are not large. It can be seen that half-lives at the 0.1 M amine level are <10 s... 

When Wa = RC(=0), that is, acyl (Figure 1.11), Wa is not removable without destroying the peptide bond. When Wa = ROC(=0) with the appropriate R, the 0C(=0)-NH bond of the urethane is cleavable. When Wb = NHR, Wb is not removable without destroying the peptide bond. When Wb = OR, the 0=C-0R bond of the ester is cleavable. During activation and coupling, activated residue Xaa may undergo isomerization, and aminolyzing residue Xbb is not susceptible to isomerization. 

The more activated the ester, the less stable is the compound. All the esters mentioned above can be used as shelf-stable reagents except benzotriazolyl esters, which decompose too readily. In addition to their use as activated forms of the A - a I ko x y ca r bo n y I am i n o acids, the esters derived from hydroxamic acids are implicated as intermediates in coupling reactions in which the A-hydroxy compounds have been added to promote efficient coupling between an acid and a primary or secondary amine (see Section 2.10). It is pertinent to mention that the O-acylisourea generated from carbodiimides (see Section 2.02) is an activated ester but one of nature different than those alluded to above. 

FIGURE 2.11 Structures and nomenclature of compounds that serve as auxiliary nucleophiles. Generation of activated esters. Substituted hydroxamic acids are sometimes added to carbodi-imides or other reactions to improve the efficiency of couplings. The additive suppresses side reactions by converting activated species into activated esters (see Section 2.10) before they have time to undergo secondary reactions, p(Me2SO) HOBt 9.30, HOAt 8.70. 

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