Nucleophilic reagents, solid supporte

Kaldor [49 i, 55] demonstrated the advantages of applying solid-supported scavengers to the preparation of parallel arrays in a multi-step fashion. In these studies he examined the clean-up of multiple amine alkylation and acylation reactions using a variety of immobilized electrophilic and nucleophilic scavenger reagents including an amine, isocyanate, aldehyde and acid chloride (Tab. 2.1). 

The successful assembly of organic compounds on a solid support represents only part of the challenge in SPOS. After completion of synthetic sequence, the compounds must be cleaved from linkers attached to polymer by a chemical or photochemical reaction, for example, treatment of a polymer-bound compound with acids, bases, nucleophiles, redox reagents, and even photons. Acid-labile linker and amine-cleavable Marshall linker are two major classes of hnkers used in combinatorial synthesis. 

Weakly nucleophilic heterocyclic amines have efficiently been acylated utilizing solid-supported reagent 7 [13]. Here, the electron-deficient phenol group allows for intermediate anchoring of an acyl chloride onto the resin which then is released upon treatment with various 2-aminopyridines and 2-aminothiazoles. Traces of unreacted starting material were then conveniently removed by addition of the acidic ion exchange resin Amberlite IRA-120. 

Although nucleophilic selenium species have already demonstrated their potential as versatile reagents in organic synthesis, their scope as useful reagents is still expanding as shown in applications towards stereoselective synthesis and synthesis on solid supports. 

The concept of selective sequestration of non-product species was first demonstrated using solid-supported scavengers with electrophilic and nucleophilic character in amine acylation, amine alkylation, and reductive amination protocols [46]. Since then, a wide range of scavenger reagents has become commercially available from various suppliers. The structures and functions of these scavenger resins are shown in Table 1. 

Kim, K. and Le, K. (1999) Two efficient A-acylation methods mediated by solid-supported reagents for weakly nucleophilic heterocyclic amines. Synlett, 1957-1959. 

Gas-liquid phase-transfer catalysis (GL-PTC) relies on the use of thermally stable PT catalysts adsorbed onto a solid support, which can also act as a source of the desired nucleophile. Reactions are carried out at a temperature that ensures that the catalyst is in a molten state and that reagents are in the vapor phase, and that the chemical transformation occurs in the organic microphase of molten catalyst. The products are recovered after condensation outside the reaction vessel. Only catalysts having melting points lower then the process temperature <180°C are active, but despite this limitation, GL-PTC is a versatile technique that has been applied to a number of chemical transformations. 

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