Fluorous reagents

Fig. 30 Microwave-promoted fluorous synthesis of biaryl-subshtuted proline analogs. Reagents and condihons a EtaN, DMF, MW 150 °C, 15 min, 40-75%, closed vials b R""PhB(OH)2, Pd(dppf)Cl2, K3PO4, toluene Acetone H2O, MW 120 °C, 12 min, sealed vial system, 19-79%. R=Me, Et R = Me, 1 - Pr R" = H, 3-MeO R" =Me, Et R""= 4-MeO, 3-Cl, 4-Ac,3,4-diCl,3,4-methylenedioxy...

Fig. 31 Composition of dihydropteridinone ring system using q clative cleavage in fluorous-phase. Reagents and conditions a EtOAc, MeOH, THE, MW 150 °C, 15 min, sealed vials. Y = C, N, O R = Me, Et, i-Bu, Bn R = H, aromatic or heteroaromatic ring...

Fig. 32 Fluorous mixture synthesis of fused-tricyclic hydantoins. Reagents and conditions a Mo(CO)6, DMSO, toluene, MW 150 °C, 35 min, closed system b TFA CH2CI2 (1 1), rt c PhC2H4NH2, PyBOP, i-Pr2EtN, MeOH, CH2CI2 followed by flash chromatography and F-HPLC d i-Pr2EtN, MeOH, MW 140 °C, 40 min, followed by F-SPE...

Fig. 33 Microwave-assisted fluorous Ugi condensations. Reagents and conditions a MeOH, MW 100°C, 10-20 min b TFA-THF, MW 100 °C, 10-20 min. R = Ph, furyl, 3-Me-pyridil, i-Bu, MeSC2H4, PhC2H4 R = t-Bu, cylohexyl. Bn or Bu, m-xylU...

By replacing insoluble cross-linked resins with soluble polymer supports, the well-estabhshed reaction conditions of classical organic chemistry can be more readily apphed, while still fadhtating product purification. However, soluble supports suffer from the hmitation of low loading capacity. The recently introduced fluorous synthesis methodology overcomes many of the drawbacks of both the insoluble beads and the soluble polymers, but the high cost of perfluoroalkane solvents, hmitation in solvent selection, and the need for specialized reagents may hmit its apphcations. 

Fig. 41 Representative example of microwave-assisted Suzuki couplings in fluorous phase. Reagents and conditions [Pd(dppf)Cl2], K2CO3, toluene/acetone/H20, MW 130°C, 10 min, closed system, 78%...

Compared to the previously described transition metal-catalyzed transformations in this chapter, microwave-assisted Stille reactions [74] involving organotin reagents as coupling partners are comparatively rare. A few examples describing both inter- and intramolecular Stille reactions in heterocyclic systems are summarized in Scheme 6.38 [47, 75-77]. Additional examples involving fluorous Stille reactions are described in Section 7.3. 

Scheme 7.77 Radical cydizations using fluorous tin reagents.

The authors demonstrated the recyclability of the fluorous reagents, which showed no significant loss of efficiency in facilitating the model reaction shown in Scheme 7.87. After each run, the organic layer was separated and the perfluorinated liquid was applied to the next reaction mixture. Performing six cycles of the reaction afforded the corresponding product in 64—79% yield (Fig. 7.6). 

Some of the disadvantages of the Stille reaction, e. g. the low reactivity of some substrates, separation difficulties in chromatography, and the toxicity of tin compounds, have been ameliorated by recent efforts to improve the procedure. Curran has, in a series of papers, reported the development of the concept of fluorous chemistry, in which the special solubility properties of perfluorinated or partly fluorinated reagents and solvents are put to good use [45]. In short, fluorinated solvents are well known for their insolubility in standard organic solvents or water. If a compound contains a sufficient number of fluorine atoms it will partition to the fluorous phase, if such a phase is present. An extraction procedure would thus give rise to a three-phase solution enabling ready separation of fluorinated from nonfluorinated compounds. 

Among the many applications of fluorous chemistry is the Stille coupling of tin reagents with fluorinated tags in which the products and excess of the tin-containing reagents can be conveniently removed from the reaction mixture, and recycled. Un-... 

To take advantage of the fluorous extraction procedure, or the use of the preparatively simple filtration, the use of highly fluorous reagents is crucial. The usefulness of the microwave heating technique is obvious in these examples. 

Figure 6.30. Schematic diagram of a reactor used continuously for up to 500 h for fluorous biphasic reactions without gaseous reagents. [81] (A. Yoshidaetal, Development of the continuous-flow reaction system based on the Lewis acid-catalysed reactions in a fluorous biphasic system, Green Chemisty, 5, (2003), 555) Reproduced by permission of The Royal Society of Chemistry.

Many of these new techniques are especially suited to the preparation of combinatorial libraries by solution phase parallel synthesis. This chapter provides a brief introduction to the concepts of strategy level purification, and then introduces fluorous chemistry with representative examples of reactions, reagents and techniques. 

Benzotrifluoride dissolves both organic substrates/products and fluorous tin reagent... 

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