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DOI: 10.1055/s-2005-918944
NH-1,2,3-Triazoles from Azidomethyl Pivalate and Carbamates: Base-Labile N-Protecting Groups
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Publication Date:
12 October 2005 (online)
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Abstract
NH-1,2,3-triazoles have been prepared via the copper(I)-catalyzed 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition between terminal alkynes and three N-protected organic azides, azidomethyl pivalate, azidomethyl morpholine-4-carboxylate, and azidomethyl N,N-diethylcarbamate. These organic azides were easily prepared on 0.1-mol scale in one or two steps from inexpensive commercially available materials. The cleaving properties of N-substituents in the resulting 1,2,3-triazole products with aqueous sodium hydroxide vary from <10 minutes at room temperature in the case of N-methyl pivalate, to 24 hours at room temperature in the case of N-methyl morpholine-4-carboxylate, to 24 hours at 85 °C in the case of N-methyl diethylcarbamate.
Key words
triazoles - click chemistry - azides - protecting groups - alkynes - cycloaddition - heterocycles
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Suporting information (experimental procedures, yields and characterizations for compounds 4a-k, 5a-k, 6a-l) is available from the authors upon request . Aryl and alkyl alkyne groups (R′) are found in Table [1] .
13Azidomethyl N-tert-butyl carbamate was also studied. It is quantitatively removed from the 1,2,3-triazole nitrogen under conditions similar to the morpholine 4-carboxymethyl group. However N,N′-di-tert-butyl urea byproduct complicated product purification.