Synthetic and mechanistic insight into nosylation of glycine
residues
Nicolai Stuhr-Hansen,*a Theis Ivan Sølling,b Kristian Strømgaarda
aDepartment
of Drug Design and Pharmacology, University of Copenhagen,
Universitetsparken 2, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark; e-mail: nsh@sund.ku.dk.
bDepartment
of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 5,
DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.
Supporting information
Cartesian coordinates of all the calculated structures
S1
Nosylation of H-Gly-OC2H4CO-2ClTrt-resin
S2
Selected spectra
S3
1
S1. Cartesian coordinates of all the calculated structures.
Table S1. PCM-G3MP2 energies
Molecule
E(PCM-G3MP2)
G(PCM-G3MP2)
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S2. Nosylation of H-Gly-OC2H4CO-2ClTrt-resin (Table 1, entry 11).
Fmoc-Gly-OC2H4CO2Bu-t was and loaded on resin after liberation of the corresponding
free acid, followed by nosylation as described above:
10
Fmoc-Gly-OC2H4CO2Bu-t.
Fmoc-glycine (1.49 g, 5 mmol) was refluxed in thionyl chloride (15 mL) for 2 hours. Excess
of thionyl chloride was removed in a gentle stream of nitrogen a the acid chloride was
taken up in dichloromethane (5 mL) and added to an ice-cooled solution of tert-butyl 3hydroxypropionate (0.73 g, 5 mmol) in DIPEA-dichloromethane (1:7, 25 mL) under
vigorous stirring. The resulting yellow solution was stirred at room temperature for 2 hours,
poured into ice (200 g) and extracted with pentane (50 mL) and thenethyl acetate (2 x 50
mL). The pooled organic phases were washed with sodium carbonate (sat., 10 mL), dried
over sodium sulphate, filtered and evaporated. Separation on silica (60F) with ethyl
acetate-heptane (1:4) gave Fmoc-Gly-OC2H4CO2Bu-t (1.69 g, 40%) as white crystals. Mp:
78-79 ˚C. Anal. Calcd for C24H27NO6: C, 67.75; H, 6.40; N, 3.29. Found: C, 67.67; H, 6.43;
N, 3.45. 1H NMR (400 MHz, CDCl3):  1.45 (s, 9H), 2.58 (t, J = 6.2 Hz, 2H), 3.99 (t, J = 5.2
Hz, 2H), 4.23 (t, J = 6.9 Hz, 1H), 4.38-4.42 (m, 4H), 5.31 (br-s, 1H), 7.29-7.33 (m, 2H),
7.37-7.41 (m, 2H), 7.59 (d, J = 8.1 Hz, 2H) 7.76 (t, J = 8.1 Hz, 2H). 13C NMR (100 MHz,
CDCl3):  28.07, 34.90, 42.70, 47.13, 61.11, 67.24, 81.30, 120.00, 125.09, 127.09, 127.73,
141.31, 143.82, 156.24, 169.58, 169.81.
Attachment to solid phase
The tert-butyl ester (0.43 g, 1.0 mmol) was added in one portion to a cooled mixture of
triflouroacetic acid (5 mL) and dichloromethane (2 mL), and stirring was maintained under
nitrogen for 15 minutes. Evaporation followed by co-evaporation with dichloromethane. 2chlorotrityl chloride polystyrene resin (1-2% DVB cross linking, 100-200 mesh, ready for
loading of 0.25 mmol carboxylic acid) was used as a solid support, and after swelling the
resin in dry DCM for 15-30 min, and the Fmoc-protected amino acid was loaded to the
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resin using diisopropylethylamine (DIPEA) (resin/amino acid/DIPEA in 1:4:8) in DCM for
1.5 h, followed by capping with methanol (DCM/MeOH/DIPEA 17:2:1). Fmoc deprotection
was performed with 20% piperidine in DMF (1×5 and 1×15 min; Wash step in between)
followed by washing of the resin with DCM and drying. The resin was swelled in DIPEA (6
equiv) in THF (2.5 mL) for ca. 30 min. 2-Nitrobenzenesulfonyl (Ns) chloride (4 equiv) in
DCM (1 mL) was added slowly while agitating the solution for 1 h followed by draining and
washing with THF, MeOH, and DCM. An inhomogenous mixture of
TFA/triisopropylsilane(TIPS)/H2O (18:1:1, 4 mL) was added and shaking was maintained
for 2 h. The peptide containing solution was filtered into a flask and combined with two
successive washes with DCM. After gentle evaporation in a stream of nitrogen the crude
peptide which was analyzed by LC-MS.
S3. Selected NMR spectra
Compound 1, Scheme 2 (Table, Entry 1)
Compound 2, Scheme 2 (Table, Entry 1)
Fmoc-Gly-OC2H4CO2Bu-t (for use in Table, Entry 11)
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