Fmoc, 9-fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl carbonate

For the 9-fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl (Fmoc) protection of amino acids, Chinchilla et al.36,37 prepared a similar ROMP-polymer that supports an activated. V-hydroxysuccinimide Fmoc-carbonate (Table VII, entry 31). Various Fmoc-amino acids are prepared in pure form after removal of the polymer reagent by filtration and aqueous phase separation. 

In the first step, Fmoc (9-fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl)-protected dithiocarbazate resin 43 was prepared by a three-component reaction of Merrifield resin 1 and carbon disulfide with Fmoc-protected hydrazine in the presence of sodium hydride in DMF at room temperature. Deprotection of the Fmoc group of resin 43 with 5% piperidine produced the corresponding free dithiocarbazate resin 42." In this step, the use of 5% piperidine was essential because a higher concentration caused loss of the desired substrate from resin 43. In addition, we have developed a more convenient synthetic route to the resin 42, compared to the previous report using hydrazine monohydrate and carbon disulfide with potassium hydroxide in ethanol solvent. Under these reaction conditions, we obtained the polymer-bound dithiocarbazate 42 without the Fmoc protection step of the hydrazine. 

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