The establishment of an efficient method of synthesizing heterocycles is required for the development of pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals, since many bioactive compounds have a heterocyclic ring. It is also necessary to prepare libraries of small organic compounds for investigations of function and the discovery of more bioactive compounds in pharmaceutical and agrochemical chemistry. Combinatorial and parallel synthetic methodologies provide the main driving force for the preparation of libraries for applications in the discovery of lead compounds and high-throughput medicinal chemistry within the pharmaceutical industry. [1][2][3] Many different formats of high-throughput chemistry are available and solid-phase organic synthesis (SPOS) plays a pivotal role allowing the convenient handling of large numbers of synthetic intermediates. 4,5) Since the combinatorial chemistry first appeared in the early 1990s, the way drugs are discovered has changed dramatically. The SPOS strategy has been a strong tool for high throughput synthesis and combinatorial chemistry.6-9) Synthetic intermediates are retained on the support and can be, therefore, quickly separated from the reaction mixture without extraction, concentration, and purification. SPOS is thus particularly advantageous for multi-step iterative synthesis. Various solid-phase automated synthesizers have been developed and are now commercially available. Even though several synthesizers for solution synthesis have been developed, automation is essentially easier in solid-phase synthesis than solution synthesis. In particular, the automated synthesis of peptides and oligonucleotides has allowed their facile and rapid preparation and greatly contributed to the elucidation of their functions. However, SPOS is not without its drawbacks since often extended development times are required to optimize new solid-phase chemical reactions. Actually, many laboratories have been engaged in the development of novel solidphase linking strategies and chemical technologies. This paper describes recent findings in, and a useful method for, the synthesis of heterocycle and nitrogen heterocycle compounds.
Selenium-based solid-phase chemistry to include nitrogen-containing heterocyclesNicolaou and co-workers have been engaged in the development of novel solid-phase linking strategies and chemical technologies aimed at the construction of discovery-oriented, natural product-like libraries. [10][11][12] Toward this end, several natural product-like templates have been tethered to a solidsupport utilizing an intramolecular, selenium-mediated cycloaddition procedure. Encouraged by their success in developing chemistry and technology to produce natural productlike libraries of oxygen-containing heterocycles and carbocyclic frameworks [13][14][15][16] and due to the potential utility of such libraries in chemical biology investigations, 17,18) they sought to expand the scope of this selenium-based solid-phase chemistry to include nitrogen-containing heterocycles. Recently, they reported t...