Fluorous Tagged N-Hydroxy Phthalimide for the Parallel Synthesis of O-Aryloxyamines

The parallel synthesis of O-aryloxyamines remains an unfulfilled need in the field of medicinal chemistry and fragment-based approaches. To fill this gap a solution-phase two-step process based on (1) a copper-catalyzed cross-coupling of aryl boronic acids with a fluorous tagged N-hydroxyphthalimide, and (2) a supported aminolysis was designed and optimized using Taguchi’s method. A library of O-aryloxyamines was synthesized in high yields with high purity and diversity.