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Brian R McNaughton

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Resin-bound dynamic combinatorial chemistry.

[reaction: see text] Dynamic combinatorial chemistry (DCC) is a promising technique for receptor-aided selection of high-affinity ligands from equilibrating combinatorial libraries. Identification of the specific ligand(s) selected is often challenging, however, due to difficulties associated with chromatographic separation and/or mass degeneracy within the library. Herein, we describe proof-of-concept experiments demonstrating a new technique termed resin-bound DCC (RB-DCC), which provides a solution to this problem.

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Self-selection in olefin cross-metathesis: the effect of remote functionality.

Olefin cross-metathesis (CM) is potentially an attractive method for generating dynamic combinatorial libraries (DCLs). In order for the CM reaction to be useful for DCL production, the course of the reaction and product distribution must be relatively insensitive to functionality remote from the reacting centers. We report on the CM of a series of allyl- and homoallylamides that are strongly dependent on remote functionality. This includes an unusual example of a cis-selective CM. [Reaction: see text]

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A mild and efficient one-step synthesis of quinolines.

[reaction: see text] The Friedländer synthesis of quinolines is an extensively employed protocol, yielding the desired heterocycle in a two-step reduction-condensation sequence. We have developed a mild, efficient, high-yielding single-step variant of this methodology, which employs SnCl(2) and ZnCl(2) to effect the reaction.

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