♦ Boc-ON  

♦ Silanes

♦ PMB OH

♦ t-Butanol   

♦ Cbz-Osu  

♦ Thiol   

♦ Benzyl alcohol

♦ FluoMar  

♦ Oxybenzaldehyde

♦ Fmoc  

♦ Trityl Chlorides

♦ Trityl Alcohols

♦ Thiophenol

Fluorous tags are perfluoroalkyl modified versions of traditional protecting groups familiar to synthetic organic chemists.  Conceptually they are very similar to solid phase tags, but fluorous tags and fluorous tagged substrates are soluble in most organic solvents, such as DMF, THF, CH2Cl2, etc.  This provides some distinct advantages over solid phase tagging strategies including solution phase kinetics, complete control of reaction stoichiometry, and the ability to monitor reactions easily using traditional analytical techniques, including TLC, NMR, GC, LC/MS, and IR.  The fluorous tagged materials are easily separated from non-tagged components by F-SPE.  Fluorous tags have been used in a variety of total, parallel, and mixture syntheses (1-3).

1. Zhang, W. “Fluorous Protecting Groups and Tags” in Handbook of Fluorous Chemistry Gladysz, J. A.; Curran, D. P.; Horvath, I. T. Eds. Wiley-VCH, 2004, pp222-2362.

2. Zhang, W. “Fluorous Tagging Strategy for Solution-Phase Synthesis of Small Molecules, Peptides and Oligosaccharides” Curr. Opin. Drug Disc. Develop. 2004, 7, 784-797.

3. Curran, D. P. In Stimulating Concepts in Chemistry; Stoddard, F., Reinhoudt, D., Shibasaki, M., Eds.; Wiley-VCH: New York, 2000, p 25-37.