Diketopiperazine library reactions

Hulme C, Morrissette MM, Volz FA, Bums CJ (1998) The solution phase synthesis of diketopiperazine libraries via the Ugi reaction novel application of Armstrong s convertible isonitrile. Tetrahedron Lett 39(10) 1113-1116... 

Other reports for the boron-Mannich reaction include the synthesis of aminophenol derivatives,561 a-arylglycines,576 a growth hormone secretagogue NN703,577 a polyhydroxyindolizine alkaloid uniflorine A,578 and cyclic ct-amino acids.579 The reaction has been applied to solution-phase reactions580 and the solid-phase reaction581-585 for the synthesis of libraries of peptides, a-amino acids, and bicyclic diketopiperazines. The reactions were accelerated by the irradiation of microwave.586... 

The four component Ugi reaction is a condensation between a carboxylic acid, a ketone or an aldehyde, an amine and an isonitrile. Basically each of the reaction components can be attached to the resin. The Ugi reaction is employed for the synthesis of small molecule combinatorial libraries on solid supports. Recently a novel resin bound isonitrile has been used in the Ugi multicomponent reaction for synthesizing diversity libraries of diketopiperazines and benzodiazepindiones (Scheme 3.25) [285]. 

Different novel resin-bound isonitriles have been prepared in order to perform Ugi multicomponent reactions on the solid phase. Thus, Kennedy et al. [346] prepared a novel resin-bound carbonate convertible isonitrile (CCI) that was applied in the preparation of constrained 2,5-diketopiperazine and l,4-benzodiazepine-2,5-dione libraries in parallel 80-well format The first step of the synthetic strategy was a Ugi reaction with a wide variety of amines, aldehydes, and carboxylic acids. Further manipulations of the Ugi MCR products were achieved after basic cleavage from the resin. 

More recently, a novel resin-bound isonitrile has been reported to be suitable for synthesizing libraries of l,4-benzodiazepine-2,5-diones through Ugi multicomponent reactions [25]. The method produces solid-supported Ugi products, which are cleaved by base activation to form N-acyloxazolidone intermediates that can be further elaborated. The flexibility of the approach was demonstrated by an analogous preparation of 2,5-diketopiperazines by simply replacing the 2-aminobenzoyl building blocks with a-amino acids. 

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