Transesterification solid-phase

An example of solid-phase microwave synthesis where the use of open-vessel technology is essential is shown in Scheme 4.10. The transesterification of /3-keto esters with a supported alcohol (Wang resin) is carried out in 1,2-dichlorobenzene (DCB) as a solvent under controlled microwave heating conditions [22], The temperature is kept constant at 170 °C, ca. 10 degrees below the boiling point of the solvent, thereby allowing safe processing in the microwave cavity. In order to achieve full conversion to the desired resin-bound /3-keto ester, it is essential that the methanol formed can be removed from the equilibrium [22]. 

Scheme 4.10 Microwave-assisted solid-phase transesterifications.

Transesterification is the main reaction of PET polycondensation in both the melt phase and the solid state. It is the dominant reaction in the second and subsequent stages of PET production, but also occurs to a significant extent during esterification. As mentioned above, polycondensation is an equilibrium reaction and the reverse reaction is glycolysis. The temperature-dependent equilibrium constant of transesterification has already been discussed in Section 2.1. The polycondensation process in the melt phase involves a gas phase and a homogeneous liquid phase, while the SSP process involves a gas phase and two solid phases. The respective phase equilibria, which have to be considered for process modelling, will be discussed below in Section 3.1. 

Nagahata, R., Sugiyama, J.-I., Goyal, M., Asai, M., Ueda, M. and Takeuchi, K., Solid-phase thermal polymerization of macrocyclic ethylene terephthalate dimer using various transesterification catalysts, J. Polym. Sci., Polym. Chem., 38, 3360 (2000). 

Attachment of suitable linkers to the surface of silica can be achieved by transesterification with (3-aminopropyl)triethoxysilane, which leads to the support 2 (Figure 2.8) [198-200]. Alternatively, silica can be functionalized by reaction with alkyltri-chlorosilanes [201]. For the solid-phase synthesis of oligonucleotides, supports with a longer spacer, such as that in 3, have proven more convenient than 2 [202-206]. Supports 3, so-called LCAA-CPG (long chain alkylamine CPG [194,195]), are commercially available (typical loading 0.1 mmol/g) and are currently the most commonly used supports for the synthesis of oligonucleotides. For this purpose, protected nucleosides are converted into succinic acid monoesters, and then coupled to LCAA-CPG. CPG functionalized with a 3-mercaptopropyl linker has been used for the solid-phase synthesis of oligosaccharides [207]. 

Solid-phase synthesized polymer-bound 3-iodoindole 845 subjected to the Sonogashira and Suzuki coupling reactions afforded the corresponding coupling products 846 and 847 in 91% and 80% yields, respectively, as determined by transesterification and isolation of the corresponding methyl esters (Scheme 161) <2005JC0809>. 

The reaction was exploited very recently in a solid phase synthesis of biaryls. Aryl zinc bromides undergo palladium catalyzed coupling reactions with aryl bromides bound to a polystyrene resin. The product can be released from the resin by transesterification [44]. Ni(0) catalysed homocoupling of arylzinc reagents could also be realised using aryl triflates [45], as well as aryl tosylates and mesylates [46]. 

Xie, W H. Peng L. Chen. Transesterification of soybean oil catalyzed by potassium loaded on alumina as a solid-phase catalyst. Appl. Catal. A Gen. 2006, 300, 67—74. 

Cambou and Klibanov have used transesterifications catalyzed by PLE and yeast lipase to resolve a variety of alcohols with great effectiveness. Their novel approach employed a biphaslc system of aqueous enzyme solution absorbed in a porous solid phase placed in a mixture of "matrix ester" (methyl propionate or tributyrin) and racemic alcohol (Scheme I). 

Based on a domino Knoevenagel/cne reaction, Tietze and Steinmetz developed a stereoselective solid-phase synthesis of cyclopentane and cyclohexane derivatives of type 326 and 327 using a Merrifield resin modiiled with a propandiol linker 320 as shown in Scheme 4.6.3. Subsequent reaction with monomethyl malonoyl chloride 321 afforded the polymer-bound malonate 322, which, in a two-component domino reaction was treated with unsaturated aldehydes 323 in the presence of a catalytic amount of piperidinium acetate and zinc chloride. Except for a-substituted aldehydes, the initial Knoevenagel condensation occurred without addition of dehydrating agents and the subsequent intramolecular ene reaction gave cyclopentane and cyclohexane derivatives 325 after cleavage firom the resin either by reduction or transesterification. 

Preparation of PCT is best accomplished from DMT using standard transesterification catalysts such as titaniiun compoimds. Because of the high melting point of the polymer, final polyesterification temperatmes must be high (greater than 300°C at typical commercial trans/cis ratios) (7). PCT prepared in the melt phase can be crystallized and then solid phase polymerized to obtain even higher molecular weights. 

The analysis of polymerization processes in nanofiller presence does not differ principally from the one for transesterification model reaction [1]. In the present chapter some important aspects of such polymerization will be studied, mainly on the example of solid-phase imidization. 

Esterification is the first step in PET synthesis but also occurs during melt-phase polycondensation, SSP, and extrusion processes due to the significant formation of carboxyl end groups by polymer degradation. As an equilibrium reaction, esterification is always accompanied by the reverse reaction being hydrolysis. In industrial esterification reactors, esterification and transesterification proceed simultaneously, and thus a complex reaction scheme with parallel and serial equilibrium reactions has to be considered. In addition, the esterification process involves three phases, i.e. solid TPA, a homogeneous liquid phase and the gas phase. The respective phase equilibria will be discussed below in Section 3.1. 

The chemistry of the solid-state polycondensation process is the same as that of melt-phase poly condensation. Most important are the transesterification/glycolysis and esterification/hydrolysis reactions, particularly, if the polymer has a high water concentration. Due to the low content of hydroxyl end groups, only minor amounts of DEG are formed and the thermal degradation of polymer chains is insignificant at the low temperatures of the SSP process. 

To increase the PET molecular weight beyond 20 000 g/mol (IV = 0.64 dL/g) for bottle applications, with minimum generation of acetaldehyde and yellowing, a further polycondensation is performed in the solid state at low reaction temperatures of between 220 and 235 °C. The chemistry of the solid-state polycondensation (SSP) process is the same as that for melt-phase polycondensation. Mass-transport limitation and a very low transesterification rate cause the necessary residence time to increase from 60-180 minutes in the melt phase to... 

The one-pot dynamic kinetic resolution (DKR) of ( )-l-phenylethanol lipase esterification in the presence of zeolite beta followed by saponification leads to (R)-l phenylethanol in 70 % isolated yield at a multi-gram scale. The DKR consists of two parallel reactions kinetic resolution by transesterification with an immobilized biocatalyst (lipase B from Candida antarctica) and in situ racemization over a zeolite beta (Si/Al = 150). With vinyl octanoate as the acyl donor, the desired ester of (R)-l-phenylethanol was obtained with a yield of 80 % and an ee of 98 %. The chiral secondary alcohol can be regenerated from the ester without loss of optical purity. The advantages of this method are that it uses a single liquid phase and both catalysts are solids which can be easily removed by filtration. This makes the method suitable for scale-up. The examples given here describe the multi-gram synthesis of (R)-l-phenylethyl octanoate and the hydrolysis of the ester to obtain pure (R)-l-phenylethanol. 

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