Efficient Access to New Chemical Space Through Flow-Construction of Druglike Macrocycles Through Copper-Surface-Catalyzed Azide-Alkyne Cycloaddition Reactions
作者:Andrew R. Bogdan、Keith James
DOI:10.1002/chem.201002215
日期:2010.12.27
of 12‐ to 22‐membered macrocycles, with druglike functionality and properties, have been generated by using a simple and efficient copper‐catalyzed azide–acetylene cycloadditionreaction, conducted in flow in high‐temperature copper tubing, under environmentally friendly conditions. The triazole‐containing macrocycles have been generated in up to 90 % yield in a 5 min reaction, without resorting to
Strained Cyclophane Macrocycles: Impact of Progressive Ring Size Reduction on Synthesis and Structure
作者:Andrew R. Bogdan、Steven V. Jerome、K. N. Houk、Keith James
DOI:10.1021/ja208503y
日期:2012.2.1
The synthesis, X-ray, crystal structures, and calculated strain energies are reported for a homologous series of 11- to 14-membered drug-like cyclophane macrocycles, representing an unusual region of chemical space that can be difficult to access synthetically. The ratio of macrocycle to dimer, generated via a copper catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloaddition macrocyclization in flow at elevated temperature, could be rationalized in terms of the strain energy in the macrocyclic product. The progressive increase in strain resulting from reduction in macrocycle ring size, or the introduction of additional conformational constraints, results in marked deviations from typical geometries. These strained cyclophane macrocyclic systems provide access to spatial orientations of functionality that would not be readily available in unstrained or acyclic analogs. The most strained system prepared represents the first report of an 11-membered cyclophane containing a 1,4-disubstituted 1,2,3-triazole ring and establishes a limit to the ring strain that can be generated using this macrocycle synthesis methodology.