Polystyrene hydroxymethyl resin

The first use of this method for the monitoring of solid-phase reactions was described by Yan et al. [20]. Polystyrene hydroxymethyl resin as starting material was reacted with adipinic acid chloride and dipropargyle amine (Fig. 16.7). 

Chloromethyl polystyrene (Merrifield resin) has been prepared by chloro-methylation of polystyrene [23,27,53,54], by copolymerization of 4-chloromethylsty-rene with styrene [20,26,55,56], and by chlorination of poly(4-methylstyrene) [57,58], Aminomethyl polystyrene is most conveniently prepared by direct amidomethylation of polystyrene with (hydroxymethyl)amides or (halomethyl)amides under acidic conditions followed by hydrolysis [59-62], but it has also been prepared directly from chloromethyl polystyrene ([63,64] see also Section 10.1.1.1). 

The most common solid supports in SPS are hydrophobic polystyrene (PS) resin beads (9), which are representatives of the class of so-called gelatinous solid supports. They consist of PS cross-linked with 1-2% divinylbenzene (DVB) and are described schematically in Fig. 1.1, which shows the appearance of a hydroxymethyl-grafted PS resin. 

Hydroxyethylene resin HMPA resin Chloromethyl resin Hydroxymethyl resin Tritylchloride resin Rink amide resin Wang resin REM resin Aminomethyl resin Chloromethyl resin Wang resin Rink amide resin PAL amide resin MBHA resin Chloromethyl resin Chlorotrityl resin Wang resin PAM resin Polystyrene resin Chloromethyl resin Chlorotrityl resin Wang resin Rink amide resin Sasrin resin Polystyrene resin Chloromethyl resin Benzoic acid resin Wang resin Trityl resin 2-Chlorotrityl resin PAL resin Rink amide resin MBHA resin REM resin Hydroxymethyl resin Polystyrene Aminomethyl resin Chloromethyl resin 2-Chlorotrityl resin Hydroxyethyl resin Rink amide resin Wang resin MBHA resin Sieber resin... 

The polymeric resin used for Merrifield solid-phase peptide synthesis (Section 26.8) is prepared by treating polystyrene with iV-(hydroxymethyl) phthalimide and trifluoromethanesulfonic acid, followed by reaction with hydrazine. Propose a mechanism for both steps. 

Rapid loading of cross-linked PS Wang resin (4-(benzyloxy)benzyl alcohol PS) with a selection of /3-ketoesters was shown to reach completion within 1-10 min if microwave irradiation at 170 °C was employed. The conventional thermal method for acetoacetylation of hydroxymethyl-functionalized polystyrene resins takes several hours therefore, microwave heating allowed for... 

Starting from the corresponding hydroxymethyl-benzocrown, it has been possible to generate the immobilized system (186) by reacting the above precursor with chloromethylated polystyrene (which is available commercially as Merrifield s resin). Typically, systems of this type contain a polystyrene matrix which has been cross-linked with approximately 1-4% p-divinylbenzene. In one study involving (186), a clean resolution of the alkali metal halides was achieved by HPLC using (186) as the solid phase and methanol as eluent (Blasius etal., 1980). In other studies, the divalent alkaline earths were also separated. 

Scheme 8 shows how this synthesis was performed. FMOCprotected methoxy-3-amino-benzoic acid 62 was attached to hydroxymethyl polystyrene resin. The resulting ester 63 was deprotected and then reductively... 

Support-bound /V-sulfonyl carbamates, which can be prepared by N-sulfonylation of resin-bound carbamates, are susceptible to nucleophilic cleavage. These intermediates enable the solid-phase preparation of A-ary I- or /V-alkylsulfonamides using inexpensive hydroxymethyl polystyrene (Entries 8 and 9, Table 3.15). Polystyrene-bound carbamates can also be cleaved by treatment with acyl halides in the presence of Lewis acids (Entry 4, Table 3.16). 

Cleavage conditions for alkyl benzyl ethers prepared from acid-labile benzyl alcohols are similar to those for the corresponding benzyl esters (Table 3.30). Aryl benzyl ethers, however, are generally cleaved more easily by acidolysis than esters or alkyl ethers. Phenols etherified with hydroxymethyl polystyrene, for instance, can even be released by treatment with TFA (Entry 1, Table 3.31). It has also been shown that Wang resin derived phenyl ethers are less stable than Wang resin derived esters towards refluxing acetic acid [29]. Alternatively, boron tribromide may be used to cleave aryl ethers from hydroxymethyl polystyrene [573],... 

Acrylic acid esterified with cross-linked hydroxymethyl polystyrene or Wang resin reacts smoothly with primary or secondary aliphatic amines at room temperature (Entries 1 and 2, Table 10.6). Only sterically demanding amines or amines of low nucleophilicity (anilines, a-amino acid esters) fail to add to polystyrene-bound acrylate. Support-bound acrylamides are less reactive than acrylic esters, and generally require heating to undergo addition with amines (Entries 4 and 5, Table 10.6). a, 3-Unsaturated esters with substituents in the 3-position (e.g. crotonates, Entry 3, Table 10.6) react significantly more slowly with nucleophiles than do acrylates. The examples in Table 10.6 also show that polystyrene-bound esters are rather stable towards aminolysis, and provide for robust attachment even in the presence of high concentrations of amines. Entry 10 in Table 10.6 is an example of the alkylation of a resin-bound amine with an electron-poor alkene to yield a fluorinated peptide mimetic. 

Standard solid-phase peptide synthesis requires the first (C-terminal) amino acid to be esterified with a polymeric alcohol. Partial racemization can occur during the esterification of N-protected amino acids with Wang resin or hydroxymethyl polystyrene [200,201]. /V-Fmoc amino acids are particularly problematic because the bases required to catalyze the acylation of alcohols can also lead to deprotection. A comparative study of various esterification methods for the attachment of Fmoc amino acids to Wang resin [202] showed that the highest loadings with minimal racemization can be achieved under Mitsunobu conditions or by activation with 2,6-dichloroben-zoyl chloride (Experimental Procedure 13.5). iV-Fmoc amino acid fluorides in the presence of DMAP also proved suitable for the racemization-free esterification of Wang resin (Entry 1, Table 13.13). The most extensive racemization was observed when DMF or THF was used as solvent, whereas little or no racemization occurred in toluene or DCM [203]. 

Trichloroacetimidates are the only type of imino ethers to have found some application in solid-phase synthesis. Trichloroacetimidates can readily be prepared from support-bound alcohols by treatment with trichloroacetonitrile and a base (Entry 6, Table 13.18). Because trichloroacetimidates are good alkylating agents, this reaction offers a convenient alternative for converting support-bound aliphatic alcohols into alkylating agents. Trichloroacetimidates prepared from Wang resin or from hydroxymethyl polystyrene are quite stable and can be stored for several months without decomposition [253],... 

Attachment of the first amino acid is usually performed using a symmetric anhydride in the presence of DMAP, but mixed anhydrides or acid fluorides can also be used (see Section 13.4.1). Alternatively, chloromethyl polystyrene can be treated with the cesium salt of the first amino acid to yield the corresponding benzyl ester (Section 13.4.2). All proteinogenic Boc-protected a-amino acids linked to hydroxymethyl polystyrene or PAM resin are commercially available [18,19] and can be stored for long periods without deterioration. 

FIGURE 12.7 MAS H-NMR spectra of the solid-phase synthesis of a trisubstituted amine on the hydroxymethyl polystyrene resin. Reprinted with permission from Y. Luo, X. Ouyang, R.W. Armstrong and M.M. Murphy, J. Org. Chem., 1998, 63, 8719. Copyright 1998 American Chemical Society. 

For loading onto the resin, (hydroxymethyl)polystyrene (6.00 g, 6 mmol) and imidazole (2.45 g, 36 mmol) were taken up in DMF (40 mL). The arylchlor-osilane (6.92 g, 24.1 mmol) was added to the suspension and the mixture was kept at rt with shaking for 45 h. The resin was then filtered off, washed with DMF (three times), THF (three times), and CH2CI2 (three times), and then dried. Repetition of the above procedure enhanced the loading. 

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