Linker Sulfonate

A variety of cleavage conditions have been reported for the release of amines from a solid support. Triazene linker 52 prepared from Merrifield resin in three steps was used for the solid-phase synthesis of aliphatic amines (Scheme 22) [61]. The triazenes were stable to basic conditions and the amino products were released in high yields upon treatment with mild acids. Alternatively, base labile linker 53 synthesized from a-bromo-p-toluic acid in two steps was used to anchor amino functions (Scheme 23) [62]. Cleavage was accomplished by oxidation of the thioether to the sulfone with m-chloroperbenzoic acid followed by 13-elimination with a 10% solution of NH4OH in 2,2,2-trifluoroethanol. A linker based on l-(4,4 -dimethyl-2,6-dioxocyclohexylidene)ethyl (Dde) primary amine protecting group was developed for attaching amino functions (Scheme 24) [65]. Linker 54 was stable to both acidic and basic conditions and the final products were cleaved from the resin by treatment with hydrazine or transamination with ra-propylamine. 

Kroll FEK, Morphy R, Rees D, Gani D. Resin-immobilized benzyl and aryl vinyl sulfones New versatile traceless linkers for solid-phase organic synthesis. Tetrahedron Lett 1997 38 8573-8576. 

F. E. K. Kroll, R. Morphy, D. Rees, D. Gani, Resin-Immobilized Benzyl and Aryl Vinyl Sulfones New Versatile Traceless Linkers for Solid-Phase Organic Synthesis , Tetrahedron Lett. 1997, 38, 8573-8576. 

There is huge potential in the combination of biocatalysis and electrochemistry through reaction engineering as the linker. An example is a continuous electrochemical enzyme membrane reactor that showed a total turnover number of 260 000 for the enantioselective peroxidase catalyzed oxidation of a thioether into its sulfone by in situ cathodic generated hydrogen peroxide - much higher than achieved by conventional methods [52],... 

Acetals and ketals are very important protecting groups in solution-phase synthesis, but only a few constructs have been used as linkers in solid-phase synthesis (Tab. 3.3). The THP-linker (22) (tetrahydropyran) was introduced by Ellman [54] in order to provide a linker allowing the protection of alcohols, phenols and nitrogen functionalities in the presence of pyridinium toluene sulfonate, and the resulting structures are stable towards strong bases and nucleophiles. Other acetal-linkers have also been used for the attachment of alcohols [55, 56]. Formation of diastereomers caused by the chirality of these linkers is certainly a drawback. Other ketal tinkers tike... 

The development of sulfone linkers, the exploration of sulfone based chemical transformations and cleavage strategies are an important objective in soHd-phase organic synthesis. This kind of Hnker (Tab. 3.7) has been used with thioethers [108], sulfoxides [109], sulfones [110], sulfonic acids and their corresponding derivatives [111]. Because carbon-sulfur bonds can be cleaved under very mild conditions, some Hnkers have been based on this effect. They can be cleaved under reductive conditions ]112, 113], photolytic conditions [114, 115] or with strong bases [116]. Various safety catch Hnkers have been developed based on the fact that thiols can be oxidized to sulfoxides and sulfones [112, 113]. 

Examples for multifunctional cleavage are given by the use of sulfone-, silyl- or triazene-linkers [202]. Wagner et al. for example used a cleavage Suzuki reaction on a sulfonium-linker (105) (Scheme 3.8) [206]. 

According to Marshall [23] and Beech [26], the oxidation of the thiophenol linker would increase the reaction rate. To study this effect, the linker in resin (35) was oxidized to sulfone/sulfoxide using mCPBA. Cleavage reaction of resin (35) -OX with n-butylamine went to completion in less than 4 min (Fig. 12.20), compared with 24 h needed for this resin under the same conditions without oxidation. The rate constant was determined to be 0.0179, which was a 580-fold increase compared with the unoxidized form. This result indicated that a linker oxidation was preferred for high yield when the products will not be affected by oxidation conditions. 

All of these features contrast with the structure of the second extender-fragment complex, shown in Fig. 9.9b. Here, the extender forces itself into the S2 pocket, but the disulfide linker then curves back to place the thiophene sul-fone into the S4 pocket. The sulfone makes some of the same hydrogen bonds as the salicylic acid and the aspartyl residue in the tetrapeptide but with completely different chemistry. The flexibility of caspase-3 to accommodate different... 

Catalysts 75c and 76a also indnce cyclization of a variety of aliphatic snbstrates for the construction of tetrasubstitnted carbon centers in good yields and high enantioselectivities (Scheme 12). Despite the snccess of carbon, nitrogen and oxygen tethers, sulfide side chains have proven resistant to cyclization nnder optimized conditions. By changing the linker to a sulfone 87, cyclization was accomplished in 98% yield, albeit 80% ee. 

For some applications, it is useful to put a substrate on a solid support. Linkers that can be converted directly to desired functionality ( traceless ) are particularly valuable. Andrew M. Cammidge of the University of East Anglia and A. Ganesan of the University of Southampton independently (Chem. Commun. 2004, 1914, 1916) developed the polymeric sulfonyl chloride 9. The derived phenyl sulfonates are useful partners for transition-metal mediated cross coupling. 

Linkers for Thiocarboxylic, Boronic, Phosphonic, Phosphoric, and Sulfonic Acids... 

Only a few examples of solid-phase syntheses of phosphonic, phosphoric, and sulfonic acids have been reported (Figure 3.16). Benzyl esters of these strong acids can act as alkylating agents, and may therefore be too labile to serve as linkers for long synthetic sequences on solid phase. However, if cross-linked polystyrene is used as the support, the reactivity of, for example, benzyl sulfonates is strongly reduced, and even... 

Figure 3.16. Linker strategies for phosphonic acids [202,203], phosphoric acids [204,205], and sulfonic acids [201].

As illustrated by the examples in Table 3.9, resin-bound 4-alkoxybenzylamides often require higher concentrations of TFA and longer reaction times than carboxylic acids esterified to Wang resin. For this reason, the more acid-sensitive di- or (trialkoxy-benzyl)amines [208] are generally preferred as backbone amide linkers. The required resin-bound, secondary benzylamines can readily be prepared by reductive amination of resin-bound benzaldehydes (Section 10.1.4 and Figure 3.17 [209]) or by A-alkyla-tion of primary amines with resin-bound benzyl halides or sulfonates (Section 10.1.1.1). Sufficiently acidic amides can also be A-alkylated by resin-bound benzyl alcohols under Mitsunobu conditions (see, e.g., [210] attachment to Sasrin of Fmoc cycloserine, an O-alkyl hydroxamic acid). 

Polystyrene-bound aliphatic sulfonic esters and O-aryl sulfamates can be cleaved by treatment with potassium carbonate or other nucleophiles, whereby the corresponding alcohols are released into solution (Entries 11 and 12, Table 3.34). O-Alkyl sulfamates, on the other hand, do not react with nucleophiles and cannot be used as linkers for alcohols [245],... 

Alternatively, sulfonamides can also be prepared by oxidation of sulfinamides with periodate (Entry 3, Table 8.8) or with MCPBA [125]. Polystyrene-bound sulfonyl chlorides, which can be prepared from polystyrene-bound sulfonic acids by treatment with PCI5, SOCI2 [126-129], CISO3H [130], or SO2CI2/PPI13 [131], react smoothly with amines to yield the corresponding sulfonamides (Entry 4, Table 8.8). Support-bound carbamates of primary aliphatic or aromatic amines can be N-sulfonylated in the presence of strong bases, and can therefore be used as backbone amide linkers for sulfonamides (Entries 5 and 6, Table 8.8). 

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