Base dependence in copper-catalyzed Huisgen reactions: Efficient formation of bistriazoles
Base dependence in copper-catalyzed Huisgen reactions: Efficient formation of bistriazoles
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DOI:
10.1002/anie.200700399
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发表时间:
2007-01-01
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16.6
通讯作者:
Burgess, Kevin
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作者:
Angell, Yu;Burgess, Kevin
Copper-accelerated [1, 2] Huisgen additions [3, 4] of azides to alkynes are archetypical examples of “click chemistry”.[5] These were originally reported by Meldal and co-workers.[1] Since then Sharpless and co-workers recognized their privileged status: the reactions take place with high yields, under mild conditions, and use copper sources that have no impact on most other functional groups.[2] These reactions are undeniably useful in contemporary organic chemistry.[6] In our research group, we often observed a minor impurity by analytical HPLC when we prepared libraries of triazoles through these copper-mediated reactions. LC-MS analyses indicated these were oxidative dimers of the desired product (that is,[2M+À2H]). Sharpless and co-workers previously noticed such minor amounts of by-products and, without reporting their characterization, they attributed these byproducts to the direct use of CuI species.[2] However, we observed significant amounts of these products when we attempted azide–alkyne coupling reactions of crude substrates, even with a CuSO4/Cu powder system. Here we report that these oxidative dimers have the structure 1 and that they can be the major products under basic conditions [Eq.(1)].We varied the reaction conditions in an attempt to optimize the yield of compound 1a in this Cu-mediated process, but most attempts were unsuccessful (see the Supporting Information). For example, triazole 2 (Table 1) was the main product when the reaction was performed under nitrogen with Cu/CuSO4, but the catalyst was rapidly deactivated and the starting materials remained when the