Perfluoroalkylsulfonyl linker

We recently reported the synthesis of a perfluoroalkylsulfonyl linker attached to TentaGel resin 13 (Fig. 6), which proves to act in a fashion similar to triflates as we had hoped, and demonstrated its application for the traceless cleavage of phenols using palladium-catalyzed reduction and Suzuki cross-coupling reactions.3,4... 

The resin-bound perfluoroalkylsulfonyl linker is compatible with many common solid-phase reactions, such as tin dichloride-mediated aromatic nitro group reduction, trifluoroacetic acid-mediated tBoc deprotection, reductive amination reactions, acylation, and sulfonation. It is possible to perform several sequential synthetic reactions on the nonflate resin so that multistep syntheses can be carried out. The solid-phase approach provides an operationally simple, inexpensive, and general protocol for the cleavage... 

A traceless perfluoroalkylsulfonyl linker for the deoxygenation of phenols has been reported by Holmes. A more lightly fluorous variant has also been presented by Zhang, where microwave heating was applied to increase the speed of the reaction. The traceless tag was exemplified in syntheses of triaryl-substituted pyrimidines and hydantoins (Reaction Scheme 10). 

Oxidative Pd insertion into electron-poor aryl sulfonates is a key step in Pd(0)-mediated C-C coupling reactions. This principle has been turned into a traceless linker concept in which phenols are attached via sulfonates to a solid support [107]. The system has been optimized by employing a perfluoroalkylsulfonyl linker that closely resembles the commonly applied inflates (90, Scheme 41). In this respect, the linker acts as a protecting group and as an activating entity. Reductive cleavage of 91 with Pd(0) and formic acid led to arenes 92 [108]. 

Application of Suzuki coupling reactions for parallel and eombinatorial synthesis has been explored by conducting the reaction under mierowave irradiation or on solid support with a linker sueh as perfluoroalkylsulfonyl (Pan et al., 2001). The Suzuki reaetion is one of the most versatile and used reactions for the selective construction of carbon-carbon bonds, in particular for the formation of biaryls (Has-san et al., 2002). 

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