Synfacts 2006(10): 1076-1076  
DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-949289
Polymer-Supported Synthesis
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Catch and Release of Homogeneous Catalysts for Recycling

Contributor(s): Yasuhiro Uozumi, Yoichi M. A. Yamada
B. W. T. Gruijters, M. A. C. Broeren, F. L. van Delft, R. P. Sijbesma, P. H. H. Hermkens, F. P. J. T. Rutjes*
Radboud University Nijmegen, Eindhoven University of Technology and Organon N. V., Oss, The Netherlands
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Publication Date:
21 September 2006 (online)

Significance

A new method for recovering and reusing homogeneous catalysts was developed based on reversible hydrogen bonding of the catalysts and a resin-supported scavenger. Thus, the [3+2] cycloaddition of 1 and 2 (1 equiv) was performed with a homogeneous ureido[1H]pyrimidinone (UPy)-tagged catalyst, (Upy-phen)CuPPh3Br, with PPh3 in MeCN at room temperature for 16 h. After an aqueous work-up, the crude product was treated with an ArgoPore resin-supported-UPy 5 in CHCl3. The catalyst was scavenged via hydrogen bonding with 5 to give the complex (Upy-phen)CuPPh3Br·5 in 98.3%. After the catalyst was removed by filtration, the product 3 was isolated in >99% yield.