Revisiting benzenesulfonyl linker for the deoxygenation and multifunctionalization of phenols
Revisiting benzenesulfonyl linker for the deoxygenation and multifunctionalization of phenols
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10.1021/cc0600066
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2006-05-01
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Kondo, Y
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Tsukamoto, H;Suzuki, R;Kondo, Y
Arenes and heteroarenes are important classes in the field of pharmaceutical and material sciences. Discovery of the arenes possessing interesting biological activities and functions should require enormous time and labor. Solid-phase synthesis based on combinatorial chemistry has enabled rapid preparation of a lot of aromatic compounds and promoted the discovery process. A key component in solid-phase synthesis is the linker that is used to attach the molecules to the solid support. Traceless linkers represent an exciting aspect of solid-phase organic synthesis due to the desire to make molecules lacking any extraneous functionality. 1 Although several traceless linkers for attachment of the arenes have been developed, they have their own limitations. Group 14 metal-based linkers2 and triazene-type linkers3 require preactivation of the initial building block prior to attachment to the resin, ie, metalation of aryl halides and formation of diazonium salts from the parent anilines, respectively. On the other hand, hydrazide4 and boronate5 linkers are restricted to classes of starting materials with relatively few commercial members. Benzenesulfonate linker6-8 gets rid of these limitations where the direct and facile coupling of commercially available polystyrene sulfonyl chloride (PS-SO2Cl) 9 and also commercially available phenols was possible without prior modification. However, only electron-deficient phenols could be deoxygenated under Pd (OAc) 2/1, 3-bis (diphenylphosphino) propane (dppp) catalysis due to the poor activating ability of the benzenesulfonyl group. To improve the poor reactivity, some electrondeficient ‘triflate-like’linkers10 have been developed, but their preparation is now required. The commercially availability and chemical stability of the benzenesulfonyl linker were enough attractive to drive us to reinvestigate the Pd-catalyzed reductive cleavage conditions applicable to the sulfonates of electron-rich phenols. Recent advance in Pd-catalyzed carbon-carbon and carbon-nitrogen bond formation using aryl benzenesulfonates reported by Hartwig’s11 and Buchwald’s12 groups illustrates that phosphine ligands coordinated to the Pd (0) plays an important role to overcome the poor reactivity. We now wish to describe the ligand effect on the Pd-catalyzed reductive cleavage of p-toluenesulfonates and resin-bound benzenesulfonates of electron-rich phenols. We also expand application of this linker to a strategy whereby additional functionality can be appended to the aryl ring during the cleavage step.This effort began by ligand screening for the Pd-catalyzed reductive cleavage of acetamide-substituted p-toluenesulfonate 113 (Table 1). The reaction was carried out in DMF on heating at 100 C with an excess of formic acid and triethylamine as reducing agents in the presence of a catalytic amount of Pd (OAc) 2 and a series of phosphine ligands. The electron-donating acetamide group in 1 hindered the cleavage with the palladium ligated with bis (diphenylphosphine) such as dppp, dppb, and dppf (entries 1-3). 14 The use of more σ-donating bis (dialkylphosphine) afforded a small amount of the reduction product 2a (entries 4, 5). These results suggest oxidative addition of 1 to the Pd (0) complex should be a rate-determining step. While 2-(dicyclohexylphosphino)-2′, 4′, 6′-tri-i-propyl-1, 1′-biphenyl (X-PHOS) 15 as a sterically hindered monophosphine developed by Buchwald12 was less effective, PPF-t-Bu15 as a sterically hindered bis (phosphine) employed by Hartwig11 proved to be the most effective for the cleavage (entries 6, 7). Further optimization of reaction conditions revealed that t-BuOH as solvent completely converted 1 …