Polymer-Supported Mitsunobu Ether Formation and its Use in Combinatorial Chemistry

Article abstract of DOI:10.1016/0040-4039(95)01247-F

Aromatic hydroxy acids have been attached to a polymeric solid support and the phenolic hydroxy groups have been reacted with a variety of primary and secondary alcohols under the conditions of the Mitsunobu reaction (triphenylphosphine and diethyl azodicarboxylate) in tetrahydrofuran.In most cases the reaction provided a nearly quantitative yield of alkyl aryl ethers, as determined after cleaving theproduct from the resin.To demonstrate that the polymer-supported Mitsunobu reaction is useful for combinatorial library synthesis, we synthesized a number of model compounds and a simple three randomization step library composed of 4,200 different compounds.