Mitsunobu reaction alkyl alcohols

Hydroxypyridines are readily alkylated under a variety of conditions. Mitsunobu reaction with alcohols occurs selectively at oxygen in the presence of PPh3 and DEAD in THF at room temperature <2003TL725>. The 3-hydroxy group may be selectively alkylated in the presence of aliphatic hydroxyl groups. Pyridine 104 is alkylated at the aromatic position with dodecyl bromide in the presence of potassium carbonate in DMF at 95 °C <20030BC644> (Equation 70). 

N-Alkylation of 2//-pyrido[l,2- ][ 1,3,5 tria/inc-2,4(3//)-dionc 81 was carried out with the alcohol 82 to obtain 83 under standard Mitsunobu reaction conditions (Equation 3) <2003JME3840>. 

Intermolecular reactions of hydroxylamines with secondary alkyl halides and mesylates proceed slower than with alkyl triflates and may not provide sufficiently good yield and/or stereoselectivity. A nseful alternative for these reactions is application of more reactive anions of 0-alkylhydroxamic acids or 0-alkoxysulfonamides ° like 12 (equation 8) as nucleophiles. The resulting Af,0-disubstituted hydroxamic acids or their sulfamide analogs of type 13 can be readily hydrolyzed to the corresponding hydroxylamines. The same strategy is also helpful for synthesis of hydroxylamines from sterically hindered triflates and from chiral alcohols (e.g. 14) through a Mitsunobu reaction (equation 9). 

In the case of the thiazolidinedioxides (38), the increased acidity of the cyclic sulfamide determines the reactivity. Metallation (NaH) occurs at N—H producing an anion which is readily alkylated <93TL4705>. Treatment with triphenylphosphine produces a stable betaine which can be used to couple alcohols and acids in a variant of the Mitsunobu reaction <94JOC2289>. 

N-Alkyl amides or imides can also be prepared starting from alcohols by treatment of the latter with equimolar amounts of the amide or imide, Ph3P, and diethyl azodicarboxylate (EtOOCN=NCOOEt) at room temperature (the Mitsunobu reaction, see p. 396).925... 

Alternatively, alkyl aryl ethers can be prepared from support-bound aliphatic alcohols by Mitsunobu etherification with phenols (Table 7.13). In this variant of the Mit-sunobu reaction, the presence of residual methanol or ethanol is less critical than in the etherification of support-bound phenols, because no dialkyl ethers can be generated by the Mitsunobu reaction. For this reason, good results will also be obtained if the reaction mixture is allowed to warm upon mixing DEAD and the phosphine. Both triphenyl- and tributylphosphine can be used as the phosphine component. Tributyl-phosphine is a liquid and generally does not give rise to insoluble precipitates. This reagent must, however, be handled with care because it readily ignites in air when absorbed on paper. 

Sulfonamides of primary amines are readily deprotonated (pAia 9-11) and can thus be N-alkylated or N-arylated. Because of their high nucleophilicity and low basicity, deprotonated sulfonamides also react smoothly with less reactive electrophiles, such as n-alkyl bromides [136] (Table 8.9). Sulfonamides can also be N-alkylated with aliphatic alcohols under Mitsunobu conditions. Suitable solvents for the N-alkylation of sulfonamides on polystyrene by Mitsunobu reaction are DCM, toluene, and THF. 

Sulfonamides can also be alkylated by support-bound electrophiles (Table 8.10). Polystyrene-bound allylic alcohols have been used to N-alkylate sulfonamides under the conditions of the Mitsunobu reaction. Oxidative iodosulfonylamidation of support-bound enol ethers (e.g. glycals Entry 3, Table 8.10) has been used to prepare /V-sulfonyl aminals. Jung and co-workers have reported an interesting variant of the Baylis-Hillman reaction, in which tosylamide and an aromatic aldehyde were condensed with polystyrene-bound acrylic acid to yield 2-(sulfonamidomethyl)acrylates (Entry 4, Table 8.10). 

The Mitsunobu reaction is usually only suitable for the alkylation of negatively charged nucleophiles rather than for the alkylation of amines, and only a few examples of such reactions (mainly intramolecular N-alkylations or N-benzylations) have been reported (Entry 15, Table 10.2). Halides, however, are very efficiently alkylated under Mitsunobu conditions, and it has been found that the treatment of resin-bound ammonium iodides with benzylic alcohols, a phosphine, and an azodicarboxylate leads to clean benzylation of the amine (Entry 9, Table 10.3). Unfortunately, alkylations with aliphatic alcohols do not proceed under these conditions. The latter can, however, also be used to alkylate resin-bound aliphatic amines when (cyanomethyl)-phosphonium iodides [R3P-CH2CN+][r] are used as coupling reagents [62]. These reagents convert aliphatic alcohols into alkyl iodides, which then alkylate the amine (Entry 10, Table 10.3). 

Transesterification under strongly basic reaction conditions has been used to acy-late support-bound alcohols with alkyl esters (Entry 10, Table 13.12). For sensitive acids, the Mitsunobu reaction is a particularly mild method of esterification. This reaction gives high yields with support-bound primary aliphatic alcohols and proceeds under essentially neutral reaction conditions (Experimental Procedure 13.4). Mitsunobu esterification of PEG with /V-Fmoc amino acids has also been reported [172]. 

Isothioureas can be prepared on insoluble supports by S-alkylation or S-arylation of thioureas (Entry 7, Table 14.6). Further methods for the preparation of isothioureas on insoluble supports include the N-alkylation of polystyrene-bound, A/,/V -di(alkoxy-carbonyl)isothioureas with aliphatic alcohols by Mitsunobu reaction (Entry 7, Table 14.6) and the addition of thiols to resin-bound carbodiimides [7]. Resin-bound dithio-carbamates, which can easily be prepared from Merrifield resin, carbon disulfide, and amines [76], react with phosgene to yield chlorothioformamidines, which can be converted into isothioureas by treatment with amines (Entry 8, Table 14.6). The conversion of support-bound a-amino acids into thioureas can be accompanied by the release of thiohydantoins into solution (see Section 15.9). The rate of this cyclization depends, however, on the type of linker used and on the nucleophilicity of the intermediate thiourea. 

Support-bound quinazolin-2,4-diones can be N-alkylated, either with alkyl halides under basic conditions or with aliphatic alcohols by means of the Mitsunobu reaction (Entries 12-14, Table 15.29). The methyl group of a 2-methylquinazolin-4-one is sufficiently acidic to undergo aldol condensations with aldehydes [343]. Aminations of chloroquinazolines are discussed in Section 10.1.2. 

Enantioselective Birch reduction-alkylation The chiral benzoic acid derivative 1, prepared by condensation of o-hydroxybenzoic acid with L-prolinol followed by cyclization (Mitsunobu reaction), undergoes Birch reduction (K, NH3, THF, t-butyl alcohol) followed by alkylation with C2H5I to give essentially only 2. Acid hydrolysis returns the chiral auxiliary and provides the 2-alkylated cyclo-hexenone 3. 

Schultz and co-workers31 also described the preparation of a 2,6,9-trisubstituted purine library. A preformed 2-fluoro-6-(4-aminobenzylamino) purine was reductively aminated onto the BAL linker 12. Mitsunobu chemistry was employed to alkylate the C9 position on the support-bound intermediate (Scheme 4). Subsequently, SNAr chemistry was used to incorporate amines at C6. The newly introduced primary and secondary amines bear diverse functional groups and the Mitsunobu reaction allows for incorporation of primary and secondary alcohols lacking acidic hydrogens. The support-bound product 13 was cleaved with 90% TFA/10% H20 to give a library with HPLC purities ranging between 51 and 85%. 

HSAB is particularly useful for assessing the reactivity of ambident nucleophiles or electrophiles, and numerous examples of chemoselective reactions given throughout this book can be explained with the HSAB principle. Hard electrophiles, for example alkyl triflates, alkyl sulfates, trialkyloxonium salts, electron-poor car-benes, or the intermediate alkoxyphosphonium salts formed from alcohols during the Mitsunobu reaction, tend to alkylate ambident nucleophiles at the hardest atom. Amides, enolates, or phenolates, for example, will often be alkylated at oxygen by hard electrophiles whereas softer electrophiles, such as alkyl iodides or electron-poor alkenes, will preferentially attack amides at nitrogen and enolates at carbon. 

The O-alkylation of carboxylates is a useful alternative to the acid-catalyzed esterification of carboxylic acids with alcohols. Carboxylates are weak, hard nucleophiles which are alkylated quickly by carbocations and by highly reactive, carbocation-like electrophiles (e.g. trityl or some benzhydryl halides). Suitable procedures include treatment of carboxylic acids with alcohols under the conditions of the Mitsunobu reaction [122], or with diazoalkanes. With soft electrophiles, such as alkyl iodides, alkylation of carboxylic acid salts proceeds more slowly, but in polar aprotic solvents, such as DMF, or with non-coordinating cations acceptable rates can still be achieved. Alkylating agents with a high tendency to O-alkylate carboxylates include a-halo ketones [42], dimethyl sulfate [100,123], and benzyl halides (Scheme 6.31). 

Another approach to the preparation of iV-alkyl derivatives 26 is the Mitsunobu reaction. The Mitsunobu procedure is now a well-known method for preparing amines from alcohols using acidic imide derivatives as a nitrogen nucleophile < 198IS 1, 19960PP127>. The remarkably high acidity of l,2,4-dithiazolidine-3,5-dione 12 (pA), 2.8) <2000SL1622>... 

The Mitsunobu reaction leads to the alkylation of alcohols with various nucleophiles or acids (HA) via a redox system, composed by diethylazadi-carboxylate (DEAD) and triphenylphosphine (TPP) (Figure 3.14). A limit in the application of Mitsunobu process is the pKa value of the acid counterpart, that must be usually smaller than 11 therefore, many improved redox systems have been developed in order to solve this problem. 

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