Esterifications using supported reagents

The resin-supported carbodiimide 2 (R = Cy), related to the popular solution phase reagent dicyclohexylcarbodiimide (DCC), has been the most successfully employed polymeric carbodiimide of this series, especially in the presence of additives to accelerate the coupling reaction and avoid the acylisourea-unreactive acylurea rearrangement [2]. This carbodiimide has been used for esterification reactions, as exemplified in the reaction of dithiane-containing alcohol 3 with Fmoc-protected valine in the presence of a catalytic amount of N,N-dimethylami-nopyridine (DMAP) to give ester 4 [10] (Scheme 7.1). This polymer-supported reagent 2 (R = Cy) has also been used without any additive in the amidation reaction of 3,4-diaminocyclopentanol scaffolds with 2-(methylsulfanyl)acehc acid [11]. 

A differently anchored Mukaiyama reagent is the N-methylpyridinium iodide salt 57 [71], which has been obtained by reaction of the Merrifield resin with N-Boc-aminocaproic acid in the presence of cesium carbonate to give the supported ester 55 (Scheme 7.19). Further Boc-deprotection and reaction with 6-chloronicoti-noyl chloride in the presence of Hxinig s base furnished the anchored 2-chloro-pyridine 56, which was transformed into the final N-methylpyridinium salt 57 after N-methylation in neat methyl iodide. This supported reagent has been used in the rapid microwave-assisted esterification of carboxylic acids and alcohols in the presence of triethylamine as base, with dichloromethane as solvent at 80 °C, the products being obtained in high purity after simple resin filtration [72],... 

The group of Lindau has demonstrated the effective O-alkylation of carboxylic acids using a polymer-supported O-methylisourea reagent [123], Under conventional conditions, complete esterifications were observed only after refluxing for several hours in tetrahydrofuran, and the acidic work-up required limited the scope of applicable substituents. In contrast, employing microwave heating led to complete esterifications within 15-20 min, with only 2 equivalents of the polymer-bound... 

Polymer-supported DBU (PDBU) was prepared from DBU and chloro-methylated 98 2 styrene-divinylbenzene copolymer (85JAP(K)177006). The PDBU reagent can be used as an esterification catalyst or dehydrohalogenat-ing agent. It can be regenerated quantitatively by treatment with sodium hydroxide in methanol. 

Polymer supported pyridinium salts, such as Mukaiyama reagent, have proven very useful synthetic tools in the preparation of 2-oxazoline libraries 05JC0688> and in automatable esterification reactions <05TL2817>. Yamamoto et al. have examined the use of polymer supported boronopyridinium salts for the preparation of amides and esters in good to excellent yield <050L5043,05TL5047>. 

Kawana et al. used xylofuranose derivates as chiral auxiliaries [7, 13], Through its primary hydroxy function, the auxiliary was loaded to the polystyrene resin. Esterification of the immobilized auxiliary 8 gave a-keto esters. Subsequent nucleophilic additions of Grignard reagents afforded resin-bound a-hydroxy esters. Subsequent saponification afforded the chiral a-hydroxy acids 9 (Scheme 12.5) in 18-84% yields and 36-65% enantiomeric excesses. The recovered polymer supported chiral auxiliaries could be reused without decrease of enantioselectivity. 

Scheme 16.84. Solution-phase esterification by use of a polymer-supported Mukaiyama reagent.

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