Polymer-supported, acid reagents

Use of phosphoranes as polymer-bound acylation equivalents has also been reported [66]. Initial alkylation of the polymer-supported triphenylphosphine reagent was achieved with bromoacetonitrUe under microwave irradiation conditions (Scheme 16.44). Simple treatment with triethylamine transformed the polymer-bound phosphonium salt into the corresponding stable phosphorane, which could be efficiently coupled with a variety of protected amino acids. After Fmoc deprotection and subsequent acylation the resulting acyl cyano phosphoranes could be released from the polymer support by ozonolysis at —78 °C. The released highly activated electrophiles can be converted in situ with appropriate nucleophiles [66]. 

The first use of a polymer-supported Mukaiyama reagent for microwave-mediated synthesis of amides was presented in 2004 [125]. To prove its effectiveness, even in difficult coupling reactions, it was used in the microwave-accelerated synthesis of an amide from sterically hindered pivalic acid (Scheme 16.83). The mixture was subjected to microwave irradiation at 100 °C for 10 min and the desired product was obtained in 80% yield. 

Polymer supported reagents, catalysts, protecting groups, and mediators can be used in place of the corresponding small molecule materials (Sherrington, 1991 Sundell and Nasman, 1993). The reactive species is tightly bound to a macromolecular support which immobilizes it. This generally makes toxic, noxious, or corrosive materials much safer. The use of polystyrene sulfonic acid catalyst for the manufacture of methyl r-butyl... 

The structures of these ylide polymers were determined and confirmed by IR and NMR spectra. These were the first stable sulfonium ylide polymers reported in the literature. They are very important for such industrial uses as ion-exchange resins, polymer supports, peptide synthesis, polymeric reagent, and polyelectrolytes. Also in 1977, Hass and Moreau [60] found that when poly(4-vinylpyridine) was quaternized with bromomalonamide, two polymeric quaternary salts resulted. These polyelectrolyte products were subjected to thermal decyana-tion at 7200°C to give isocyanic acid or its isomer, cyanic acid. The addition of base to the solution of polyelectro-lyte in water gave a yellow polymeric ylide. 

Many other reagents for converting alkenes to epoxides,including H2O2 and Oxone , VO(0-isopropyl)3 in liquid C02, ° polymer-supported cobalt (II) acetate and 02, ° and dimethyl dioxirane.This reagent is rather versatile, and converts methylene oxiranes to spiro-epoxides. ° ° One problem with dimethyloxirane is C—H insertion reactions rather than epoxidation. Magnesium monoperoxyphthalate is commercially available, and has been shown to be a good substitute for m-chloroperoxybenzoic acid in a number of reactions. 

In the synthesis of polypeptides with biological activity on a crosslinked polymer support as pioneered by Merrifield (1 2) a strict control of the amino acid sequence requires that each of the consecutive reactions should go virtually to completion. Thus, for the preparation of a polypeptide with 60 amino acid residues, even an average conversion of 99% would contaminate the product with an unacceptable amount of "defect chains". Yet, it has been observed (13) that with a large excess of an amino acid reagent —Tn the solution reacting with a polymer-bound polypeptide, the reaction kinetics deviate significantly from the expected exponential approach to quantitative conversion, indicating that the reactive sites on the polymer are not equally reactive. 

As mentioned before for other azolide reactions, acylations can be carried out with polymer-supported azolides as acylating reagents. For example, acetic acid hydrazide can be prepared with a polymer of l-acetyl-4-vinyl-imidazole/divinylbenzene (96 4) and hydrazine (no diacylation occurs when this method is used) [122]... 

The group of Lindau has demonstrated the effective O-alkylation of carboxylic acids using a polymer-supported O-methylisourea reagent [123], Under conventional conditions, complete esterifications were observed only after refluxing for several hours in tetrahydrofuran, and the acidic work-up required limited the scope of applicable substituents. In contrast, employing microwave heating led to complete esterifications within 15-20 min, with only 2 equivalents of the polymer-bound... 

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