Solution-phase synthesis INDEX

As in solid-phase synthesis programs, one of the most challenging problems with solution-phase synthesis is to separate products obtained in the reaction mixtures and identify the compound or compounds with biological potency or some other desirable property. An especially effective technique that has been developed to deal with this problem is called indexed libraries, also known as orthogonal libraries. In this process, each product compound is prepared twice. Analysis then permits identification of the positive part of the compound and the negative part of the compound with the greatest potency. Once these have been determined, it is possible to identify the specific compound most active in the mixture. 

From the point of view of synthetic effort, preparation of combinatorial mixtures is by far the most economical approach. It can be done with ordinary laboratory equipment and does not take more time than the synthesis of any one of the individual components of the library. This simplicity, however, has its price firstly, the more components a mixture contains the more difficult it becomes to follow the reaction analytically and to determine the actual composition of the reaction product. Secondly, if hits are found in a biological assay, deconvolution is required. In most cases this is done via resynthesis either of the individual components or of subsets of the mixture. If the composition of the initial mixtures was carefully planned it may be possible to identify the active component(s) by simply comparing the composition of the active mixtures with those of the inactive ones. Corresponding procedures have been reported in the literature (e.g., the techniques of indexed [1,2] and orthogonal [3] chemical libraries have been used in solution-phase synthesis). However, the biological effect of a mixture may also be due to a combined action of several weakly active members, with the result that deconvolution does not identify a significantly active compound. Finally, the problem of impurities multiplies with the complexity of the mixtures. 

Positional scanning was repeatedly used by Houghten and coworkers [38] in solid-phase peptide synthesis, but few examples of its application to small molecule libraries have been reported. Smith et al. [39] deconvoluted a solid-phase library of 1600 esters/amides, Andrus et al. [40] deconvoluted a solid-phase library of non-natural polyenes, Leone-Bay et al. [41] deconvoluted the activity of an indexed library in an in vivo assay, while Pirrung et al. reported both a solution phase 54-member carbamate library [42] and a solution-phase 72-member tetrahydroacridine library [43]. 

Andrus MB, Turner TM, Sauna ZE, Ambudkar SV, The synthesis and evaluation of a solution phase indexed combinatorial library of non-natural polyenes for reversal of P-glycoprotein mediated multidrug resistance, J. Org. Chem., 65 4973-4983, 2000. 

SPPS - Solid phase parallel synthesis SPMS - Solid phase split-mix synthesis Ind - Indexed ID - Iterative deconvolution Tag - Tag encoded SolPS - Solution phase parallel synthesis SolMS - Solution phase mixture synthesis... 

A number of combinatorial-based syntheses have been reported. Andrus et al. prepared a solution-phase indexed combinatorial library of nonnatural polyenes such as 291 for multidrug resistance reversal.298 This library was formed by modification of R and R. Ellman and co-workers reported a combinatorial library of synthetic receptors targeting vancomycin-resistant bacteria,209 and Paterson et al. prepared polyketide-type libraries by iterative asymmetric aldol reactions on solid support.2l0 Rieser et al. used combinatorial liquid-phase synthesis to prepare [1,4]-oxazepine-7-ones by the Baylis-Hillman reaction (see sec. 9.7.B).2H Schreiber and co-workers reported the synthesis and evaluation of a library of polycyclic small molecules for use in chemical genetic assays.2 2 Bauer et al. reported a library of N-substituted 2-pyrazoline compounds... 

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