CuAAC cycloaddition

Keywords 1,2,4/1,2,3-Triazoles CuAAC cycloaddition Antimicrobial activity... 

In 2013, Hackenberger and coworkers [66], in Berlin, reported the cycloaddition of a borane-protected alkyne-phosphonite with azides to form borane-protected triazole-phosphonites (Scheme 9.24). In this reaction protocol, we have a sequence of two different couplings with two different azido reagents in the first, we have a CuAAC cycloaddition, followed by a metal-free Staudinger phosphonite reaction. 

The synthesized CPMV-alkyne 42 was subjected to the CuAAC reaction with 38. Due to the strong fluorescence of the cycloaddition product 43 as low as 0.5 nM, it could be detected without the interference of starting materials. TMV was initially subjected to an electrophilic substitution reaction at the ortho-position of the phenol ring of tyrosine-139 residues with diazonium salts to insert the alkyne functionality, giving derivative 44 [100]. The sequential CuAAC reaction was achieved with greatest efficiency yielding compound 45, and it was found that the TMV remained intact and stable throughout the reaction. 

An improved strategy using microwave-assisted synthesis, involving a gallic acid core and copper-catalyzed [3+2] cycloaddition (CuAAc), afforded a series of glyco-dendrons.329 The straightforward synthesis of this series of glycodendrons was... 

Campidelli et al. have synthesized interesting linear and hyperbranched porphyrin polymers from CNTs via copper-catalyzed alkyne-azide cycloaddition (CuAAC) [122], Zinc porphyrin monomers containing an azide group and one or three alkyne groups were synthesized and chemically bound to alkyne functionalized SWCNTs via CuAAC. Depending upon the number of alkyne functionalities either linear (single alkyne) or dendrimer-like (triple alkyne) porphyrin polymers were produced (Fig. 5.9) [122],... 

CuAAC copper catalysed alkyne-azide cycloaddition... 

The Cu -catalysed azide alkyne 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition (CuAAC) click chemistry has also been used to synthesize a library of a,/ -D-glucopyranosyl triazoles (iii). The synthesized triazoles proved to be potential glycosidase inhibitors [15]. 

Copper-Catalyzed Azide-Alkyne Cycloaddition (CuAAC)... 

Scheme 10.1 Thermal cycloaddition of azides and alkynes usually requires prolonged heating and results in mixtures of both 1,4- and 1,5-regioisomers (A), whereas CuAAC produces only 1,4-disubstituted-...

In the mechanism of the CuAAC reaction described above, the metal catalyst activates terminal alkyne for reaction with a Cu-coordinated azide. This mode of reactivity operates with other dipolar reagents as well. In fact, the first example of a copper-catalzyed 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reaction of alkynes was reported for nitriones by Kinugasa in 1972 [124]. An asymmetric version of the Kinugasa reaction was developed by Fu et al. in 2002 [125, 126]. 

Another early example that followed the discovery of CuAAC, the copper-catalyzed reaction of nitrile oxides, is shown in Scheme 10.9. Similarly to azides, the uncatalyzed 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of nitrile oxides and acetylenes has long been known, but its applications to the synthesis of the corresponding heterocycle (isoxazoles) are scarce. Yields of isoxazole products are often quite low, side reactions are common, and both regioisomers may be formed (although the selectivity of nitrile oxide cycloadditions is usually higher than in reactions of azides, favoring the 3,5-isomer) [127]. Furthermore, nitrile oxides are not very stable and readily dimerize. 

Apart from the utilization of aryl- and vinyl-diazoacetates that can achieve the moderate to high chemo-, regio-, and enantioselectivity in intermolecular asymmetric C—H bond insertion reactions, Af-sulfonyl-l,2,3-triazole 11 was found to be able to function as an alternative carbene precursor for diverse transformations (Scheme 1.4). One advantage for using the N-sulfonyl-1,2,3-triazole is that it could be easily prepared by the Cu -catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloaddition (CuAAC) reaction, and in some cases, delicately designed reactions can be conducted in a one-pot procedure starting from alkynes and sulfonyl azides. Moreover, since there exists an inherent equilibrium... 

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],... 

Among these reactions, the Cu(l)-catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloaddition (CuAAC) is the most widely used. This reaction has been implemented for the preparation of segmented block copolymers from polymerizable monomers by different mechanisms. For example, Opsteen and van Hest [22] successfully prepared poly(ethylene oxide)-b-poly(methyl methacrylate) (PEO-b-PMMA) and PEO-b-PSt by using azide and alkyne end-functionalized homopolymers as the click reaction components (Scheme 11.2). Here, PEO, PSt, and PMMA homopolymers were obtained via living anionic ring-opening polymerization (AROP), atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP), and postmodification reactions. Several research groups have demonstrated the combination of different polymerization techniques via CuAAC click chemistry, in the synthesis of poly(e-caprolactone)-b-poly(vinyl alcohol) (PCL-b-PVA)... 

CuAAC Copper-catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloaddition... 

This chapter will serve to highlight recent advances in polymer science that have been aided by the use of click chemistry. The copper(l)-catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloaddition (CuAAC) and thiol-ene reactions will be discussed first, after which the utilization of these chemical transformations in the construction and fimction-ahzation of a multitude of different polymeric materials will be outlined. Particular attention will be focused on the preparation of highly complex polymer architectures, such as dendrimers and star polymers, which exempHfy the essential role that chck chemistry has assumed in the polymer science community. 

Scheme 30.9 The one-pot preparation of PS-gra /i-(PM MA-PEG) heterograft copolymer. Attachment of PMMA-maleimide proceeds via a [4 + 2] Diels-Alder cycloaddition with pendant anthryl groups, whereas grafting of PEG-alkyne occurs via CuAAC coupling. Reproduced with permission from Ref. [88] 2008, Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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