Fluorenylmethyloxycarbonyl chloride
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| Names | |
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| IUPAC name
Chloroformic acid 9H-fluoren-9-ylmethyl ester | |
| Other names
9-Fluorenylmethyl chloroformate; 9-Fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl chloride; Fmoc-chloride | |
| Identifiers | |
28920-43-6  | |
| ChemSpider | 31647 |
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| PubChem | 34367 |
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| Properties | |
| C15H11ClO2 | |
| Molar mass | 258.70 g·mol−1 |
| Melting point | 62 to 64 °C (144 to 147 °F; 335 to 337 K) |
| Hazards | |
| EU classification (DSD) |
Corrosive (C) |
| R-phrases | R34 |
| S-phrases | S26 S36/37/39 S45 |
| Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa). | |
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Fluorenylmethyloxycarbonyl chloride (FMOC-Cl) is a chloroformate ester. It is used to introduce FMOC group as the FMOC carbamate.
Preparation
This compound may be prepared by reacting 9-fluorenylmethanol with phosgene:[2]
Reactions
The FMOC carbamate is often used as a protecting group for amines. The FMOC group can be introduced by reacting the amine with FMOC-Cl, e.g.:[3]
The other common method for introducing the FMOC group is through 9-fluorenylmethyl succinimidyl carbonate (FMOC-OSu), which may itself be obtained by the reaction of FMOC-Cl with the dicyclohexylammonium salt of N-hydroxysuccinimide.[4]
It may be cleaved by bases, typically a solution of piperidine:
FMOC protection has found significant use in solid phase peptide synthesis because its removal with piperidine solution does not disturb the acid labile linker between the peptide and the resin.[5]
Because the fluorenyl group is highly fluorescent, certain UV-inactive compounds may be reacted to give the FMOC derivatives, suitable for analysis by reversed phase HPLC. Analytical uses of FMOC-Cl that do not use chromatography may be limited by the requirement that excess FMOC-Cl be removed before an analysis of fluorescence.
References
- ↑ Fmoc chloride at Sigma-Aldrich
- ↑ Carpino, Louis A.; Han, Grace Y. (1972). "9-Fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl amino-protecting group". The Journal of Organic Chemistry 37 (22): 3404. doi:10.1021/jo00795a005.
- ↑ Yamada, Kazuhiko; Hashizume, Daisuke; Shimizu, Tadashi; Ohki, Shinobu; Yokoyama, Shigeyuki (2008). "A solid-state 17O NMR, X-ray, and quantum chemical study of N-α-Fmoc-protected amino acids". Journal of Molecular Structure 888: 187. doi:10.1016/j.molstruc.2007.11.059.
- ↑ Paquet, A. (1982). "Introduction of 9-fluorenylmethyloxycarbonyl, trichloroethoxycarbonyl, and benzyloxycarbonyl amine protecting groups into O-unprotected hydroxyamino acids using succinimidyl carbonates". Canadian Journal of Chemistry 60 (8): 976. doi:10.1139/v82-146.
- ↑ J. Jones, Amino Acid and Peptide Synthesis, 2nd edn., Oxford University Press, 2002.