Development of a Novel, Oxidatively Activated, Safety-Catch Linker for Solid-Phase Asymmetric Organic Synthesis (SPOS)

Solid-phase asymmetric organic synthesis has become a very important synthetic strategy within the organic chemistry community.[1] Critical to success in SPOS is a linking strategy which allows both the substrate to be loaded and the product released efficiently from the polymeric support. A safety catch linker[2] (SCL) is in principle a linking molecule orthogonal to the reaction conditions of the library synthesis, which can be easily activated by a simple chemical transformation to allow efficient cleavage of the products from the polymer under mild conditions. In order to introduce the SuperQuat chiral auxiliaries[3] for SOPS, we report herein design and synthesis of a novel safety catch linker for asymmetric conjugate addition reactions.……