With Polymer Supports

The Wittig reaction has been carried out with polymer-supported ylids (see p. 509). It has also been done on silica gel. " ... 

The choice of the metals is strictly related to the catalytic application. As we shall show later, the catal54ic reaction most commonly investigated with polymer supported M / CFP catalysts is hydrogenation (Table 3). The overwhelming majority of catalytic studies concerns the hydrogenation of alkenes and by far the most commonly employed metal is palladium, followed by platinum. Examples of rhodium and ruthenium hydrogenation catalysts supported on pol5uneric supports are very rare. 

Scheme 1.72 Test reaction with polymer supported S/P-ferrocenyl ligand.

Oxidative cleavage of alkenes using sodium periodate proceeds effectively in a monophasic solution of acetic acid, water, and THF with very low osmium content or osmium-free. The orders of reactivity of alkenes are as follows monosubstituted trisubstituted >1,2 disub-stituted > 1,1-disubstituted > tetrasubstituted alkynes.100 Cleavage with polymer-supported OSO4 catalyst combined with NaI04 allows the reuse of the catalyst.101... 

Amides by Reaction with Polymer-Supported Azolides... 

As mentioned before for other azolide reactions, acylations can be carried out with polymer-supported azolides as acylating reagents. For example, acetic acid hydrazide can be prepared with a polymer of l-acetyl-4-vinyl-imidazole/divinylbenzene (96 4) and hydrazine (no diacylation occurs when this method is used) [122]... 

Polymeric hydrazides are obtained in quantitative yield by the reaction of hydrazine with polymer-supported benzotriazolides.[172] (R may be H or CH3, X preferably CONH(CH2)5 or COQH4) ... 

In 2003, Togo and co-workers described a radical cyclization and ionic cyclization onto the aromatic rings of 2-(aryl)ethanesulfonamides 21 to produce 3,4-dihydro-2,l-benzothiazine 2,2-dioxides with polymer-supported hypervalent iodine reagents in good yields <03ARK11>. 

Reactions of allyl- and benzylzinc halides with polymer-supported imines 398... 

In 2001, Sarko and coworkers disclosed the synthesis of an 800-membered solution-phase library of substituted prolines based on multicomponent chemistry (Scheme 6.187) [349]. The process involved microwave irradiation of an a-amino ester with 1.1 equivalents of an aldehyde in 1,2-dichloroethane or N,N-dimethyl-formamide at 180 °C for 2 min. After cooling, 0.8 equivalents of a maleimide dipo-larophile was added to the solution of the imine, and the mixture was subjected to microwave irradiation at 180 °C for a further 5 min. This produced the desired products in good yields and purities, as determined by HPLC, after scavenging excess aldehyde with polymer-supported sulfonylhydrazide resin. Analysis of each compound by LC-MS verified its purity and identity, thus indicating that a high quality library had been produced. 

An inverted system based on the C02-soluble catalyst Pd(OAc)2/PtBu3 has been utilized for Suzuki-coupling of resin-bound substrates [33], The use of scC02 with polymer-supported substrates seems highly attractive owing to the known plasticizing... 

A simple procedure is developed for conversion of aliphatic bromides into methyl 1-alkyl-1,2,3-triazole-4-carbox-ylates 1083. In the first step, alkyl bromide reacts with polymer-supported azide 1081 to provide a solution of azide... 

This aldol condensation is assumed to proceed via nucleophilic addition of a ruthenium enolate intermediate to the corresponding carbonyl compound, followed by protonation of the resultant alkoxide with the G-H acidic starting nitrile, hence regenerating the catalyst and releasing the aldol adduct, which can easily dehydrate to afford the desired a,/3-unsaturated nitriles 157 in almost quantitative yields. Another example of this reaction type was reported by Lin and co-workers,352 whereas an application to solid-phase synthesis with polymer-supported nitriles has been published only recently.353... 

At one extreme diffusivity may be so low that chemical reaction takes place only at suface active sites. In that case p is equal to the fraction of active sites on the surface of the catalyst. Such a polymer-supported phase transfer catalyst would have extremely low activity. At the other extreme when diffusion is much faster than chemical reaction p = 1. In that case the observed reaction rate equals the intrinsic reaction rate. Between the extremes a combination of intraparticle diffusion rates and intrinsic rates controls the observed reaction rates as shown in Fig. 2, which profiles the reactant concentration as a function of distance from the center of a spherical catalyst particle located at the right axis, When both diffusion and intrinsic reactivity control overall reaction rates, there is a gradient of reactant concentration from CAS at the surface, to a lower concentration at the center of the particle. The reactant is consumed as it diffuses into the particle. With diffusional limitations the active sites nearest the surface have the highest turnover numbers. The overall process of simultaneous diffusion and chemical reaction in a spherical particle has been described mathematically for the cases of ion exchange catalysis,63 65) and catalysis by enzymes immobilized in gels 66-67). Many experimental parameters influence the balance between intraparticle diffusional and intrinsic reactivity control of reaction rates with polymer-supported phase transfer catalysts, as shown in Fig. 1. 

The dependence of kobsd on stirring speed for Br-I exchange reactions with polymer-supported crown ethers 34 and 35 has been determined under the same conditions as with polymer-supported phosphonium salts 1 and 4149). Reaction conditions were 90 °C, 0.02 molar equiv of 100-200 mesh catalyst, 16-17% RS, 2% CL, 20 mmol of 1-bromooctane, 200 mmol of KI, 20 ml of toluene, and 30 ml of water. Reaction rates with 34 and 35 increased with increased stirring speed up to 400 rpm, and were constant above that value. This result resembles that with polymer-supported onium ion catalysts and indicates that mass transfer as a limiting factor can be removed in experiments carried out at stirring speeds of 500-600 rpm, whatever kind of polymer-supported phase transfer catalyst is used. 

Rates with 34 depended slightly on the particle size, whereas rates with 35 and 41 depended significantly on particle size. These results indicate that reactivity with 34 is limited mainly by intrinsic reactivity, and reactivity with 35 and 41 is limited by a combination of intraparticle diffusion and intrinsic reactivity. Such 1/r dependences of k0b8d are similar to those with polymer-supported benzyltrimethylammonium ion 2 and benzyltri-n-butylphosphonium ion 1. (See Fig. 4 and Table 1 in Sect. 3.1.2). 

As with polymer-supported onium ions the degree of cross-linking of the polymer support is likely to affect mainly intraparticle diffusion in reactions with polymer-supported crown ethers or cryptands. The activity of catalyst 37 decreased by a factor of about 3 as % CL with divinylbenzene changed from 1 % to 4.5 % 146). 

Complexation constants of crown ethers and cryptands for alkali metal salts depend on the cavity sizes of the macrocycles 152,153). ln phase transfer nucleophilic reactions catalyzed by polymer-supported crown ethers and cryptands, rates may vary with the alkali cation. When a catalyst 41 with an 18-membered ring was used for Br-I exchange reactions, rates decreased with a change in salt from KI to Nal, whereas catalyst 40 bearing a 15-membered ring gave the opposite effect (Table 10)l49). A similar rate difference was observed for cyanide displacement reactions with polymer-supported cryptands in which the size of the cavity was varied 141). Polymer-supported phosphonium salt 4, as expected, gave no cation dependence of rates (Table 10). 

The activity of polymer-supported crown ethers depends on solvent. As shown in Fig. 11, rates for Br-I exchange reactions with catalysts 34 and 41 increased with a change in solvent from toluene to chlorobenzene. Since the reaction with catalyst 34 is limited substantially by intrinsic reactivity (Fig. 10), the rate increase must be due to an increase in intrinsic reactivity. The reaction with catalyst 41 is limited by both intrinsic reactivity and intraparticle diffusion (Fig. 10), and the rate increase from toluene to chlorobenzene corresponds with increases in both parameters. Solvent effects on rates with polymer-supported phase transfer catalysts differ from those with soluble phase transfer catalysts60. With the soluble catalysts rates increase (for a limited number of reactions) with decreased polarity of solvent60), while with the polymeric catalysts rates increase with increased polarity of solvent74). Solvents swell polymer-supported catalysts and influence the microenvironment of active sites as well as intraparticle diffusion. The microenvironment, especially hydration... 

To clarify mechanisms of substrate selectivity, studies on elementary reaction steps with polymer-supported cosolvent catalysts must be carried out in detail. 

Numerous examples of solid/solid/liquid phase transfer catalysis are now known to be useful synthetically but have not been investigated mechanistically. Poly(ethylene glycol) immobilized on alumina and silica gel is active for reaction of solid potassium acetate with 1-bromobutane 184). Some of the best synthetic results with polymer supports are shown in Table 15. Often use of other solid salts or other catalysts gave poorer yields. It would be valuable to know for the design of future syntheses how these reactions depend on the partial solubility of the inorganic salts in the organic solvents and on the presence of trace amounts of water. 

Fluorination with Polymer-Supported (Difiuoroiodo)arenes General Procedure 159... 

Microwave reactions with polymer-supported reagents... 

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