Protection and Deprotection Reactions

Advantages of the Stille reaction include neutral conditions under which the reaction takes place, often with full retention of stereochemistry, and compatibility with nearly all functional groups thus eliminating additional steps required for protection and deprotection. Conversely, a highly undesirable drawback is the use of toxic tin compounds and the ensuing difficult removal of these from the reaction mixture. 

Enzymes are the catalyst per excellence for reactions in water, which is their natural habitat. Moreover, the use of enzymes often circumvents the need for functional group protection and deprotection steps. For example, enzymatic hydrolysis of penicillin G to 6-APA (Fig. 2.30) proceeds in one step at ambient temperature while chemical deacylation requires three steps, a temperature of - 40 C and various stoichiometric reagents, leading to a high E factor. 

Because they are readily available from natural sources in enantiomerically pure form, carbohydrates are very useful starting materials for the synthesis of other enantiomerically pure substances. However, the high number of similar functional groups present in the carbohydrates requires versatile techniques for protection and deprotection. Show how appropriate manipulation of protecting groups and other selective reactions could be employed to effect the following transformations. 

Buron et al, published the synthesis of botryllazine derivatives containing a pyrazine core [84]. Scheme 42 describes the synthesis of these compounds. Chloropyrazine 160 was employed as the starting material for the synthesis of the pyrazine chalcone analog 161. 2-Chloro-3-tributylstannylpyrazine 162 was the key intermediate and was coupled with acid chloride 163 to produce the ketone 164. Following protection and subsequent reaction with 165, pyrazine 166 was generated. Oxidation, deprotection, and demetallation produced the pyrazine of interest 161. 

The difficulty in the chemical synthesis of 2 -deoxyribonucleoside lies in the generation of 2-deoxyribosyl groups. The chemical syntheses of 2-deoxyribosyl groups and further to 2 -deoxyribonucleosides involve complex protection and deprotection steps [8-11]. It is likely that the introduction of biochemical reactions with... 

The chosen ABj monomer for the synthesis of die dendritic aliphatic polyesters Dl, D2, and D3 was bis-MPA. In the convergent growth approach, dendrons of certain generations were initially synthesized. In a final step these dendrons were coupled to the polyfunctional core molecule (see Scheme 2). To get an acceptable overall yield it is important that all reactions such as coupling, protection, and deprotection are selective and proceed in high yields since a laige number of steps are involved in the synthesis of the final dendrimers. 

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