Azide-alkyne Huisgen cycloaddition
Azide-alkyne Huisgen cycloaddition | |
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Named after | Rolf Huisgen |
Reaction type | Ring forming reaction |
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Organic Chemistry Portal | huisgen-1,3-dipolar-cycloaddition |
RSC ontology ID | RXNO:0000269 |
The azide-alkyne Huisgen cycloaddition is a 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition between an azide and a terminal or internal alkyne to give a 1,2,3-triazole. Rolf Huisgen[1] was the first to understand the scope of this organic reaction. American chemist Karl Barry Sharpless has referred to this cycloaddition as "the cream of the crop" of click chemistry[2] and "the premier example of a click reaction".[3]

In the reaction above[4] azide 2 reacts neatly with alkyne 1 to afford the product triazole as a mixture of 1,4-adduct (3a) and 1,5-adduct (3b) at 98 °C in 18 hours.
The standard 1,3-cycloaddition between an azide 1,3-dipole and an alkene as dipolarophile has largely been ignored due to lack of reactivity as a result of electron-poor olefins and elimination side reactions. Some success has been found with non-metal-catalyzed cycloadditions, such as the reactions using dipolarophiles that are electron-poor olefins[5] or alkynes.
Although azides are not the most reactive 1,3-dipole available for reaction, they are preferred for their relative lack of side reactions and stability in typical synthetic conditions.
Copper catalysis
A notable variant of the Huisgen 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition is the copper(I) catalyzed variant, no longer a true concerted cycloaddition, in which organic azides and terminal alkynes are united to afford 1,4-regioisomers of 1,2,3-triazoles as sole products (substitution at positions 1' and 4' as shown above). The copper(I)-catalyzed variant was first reported in 2002 in independent publications by Morten Meldal at the Carlsberg Laboratory in Denmark[6] and Valery Fokin and K. Barry Sharpless at the Scripps Research Institute.[7] While the copper(I)-catalyzed variant gives rise to a triazole from a terminal alkyne and an azide, formally it is not a 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition and thus should not be termed a Huisgen cycloaddition. This reaction is better termed the Copper(I)-catalyzed Azide-Alkyne Cycloaddition (CuAAC).
While the reaction can be performed using commercial sources of copper(I) such as cuprous bromide or iodide, the reaction works much better using a mixture of copper(II) (e.g. copper(II) sulfate) and a reducing agent (e.g. sodium ascorbate) to produce Cu(I) in situ. As Cu(I) is unstable in aqueous solvents, stabilizing ligands are effective for improving the reaction outcome, especially if tris(benzyltriazolylmethyl)amine (TBTA) is used. The reaction can be run in a variety of solvents, and mixtures of water and a variety of (partially) miscible organic solvents including alcohols, DMSO, DMF, tBuOH and acetone. Owing to the powerful coordinating ability of nitriles towards Cu(I), it is best to avoid acetonitrile as the solvent. The starting reagents need not be completely soluble for the reaction to be successful. In many cases, the product can simply be filtered from the solution as the only purification step required.
NH-1,2,3-triazoles are also prepared from alkynes in a sequence called the Banert cascade.
The utility of the Cu(I)-catalyzed click reaction has also been demonstrated in the polymerization reaction of a bis-azide and a bis-alkyne with copper(I) and TBTA to a conjugated fluorene based polymer.[8] The degree of polymerization easily exceeds 50. With a stopper molecule such as phenyl azide, well-defined phenyl end-groups are obtained.

The copper-mediated azide-alkyne cycloaddition is receiving widespread use in material and surface sciences.[9] Most variations in coupling polymers with other polymers or small molecules have been explored. Current shortcomings are that the terminal alkyne appears to participate in free-radical polymerizations. This requires protection of the terminal alkyne with a trimethyl silyl protecting group and subsequent deprotection after the radical reaction are completed. Similarly the use of organic solvents, copper (I) and inert atmospheres to do the cycloaddition with many polymers makes the "click" label inappropriate for such reactions. An aqueous protocol for performing the cycloaddition with free-radical polymers is highly desirable.
The CuAAC click reaction also effectively couples polystyrene and bovine serum albumin (BSA).[10] The result is an amphiphilic biohybrid. BSA contains a thiol group at Cys-34 which is functionalized with an alkyne group. In water the biohybrid micelles with a diameter of 30 to 70 nanometer form aggregates.
Copper catalysts
The use of a Cu catalyst in water was an improvement over the same reaction first popularized by Rolf Huisgen in the 1970s, which he ran at elevated temperatures.[11] The traditional reaction is slow and thus requires high temperatures. However, the azides and alkynes are both kinetically stable.
As mentioned above, copper-catalysed click reactions work essentially on terminal alkynes. The Cu species undergo metal insertion reaction into the terminal alkynes. The Cu(I) species may either be introduced as preformed complexes, or are otherwise generated in the reaction pot itself by one of the following ways:
- A Cu2+ compound is added to the reaction in presence of a reducing agent (e.g. sodium ascorbate) which reduces the Cu from the (+2) to the (+1) oxidation state. The advantage of generating the Cu(I) species in this manner is it eliminates the need of a base in the reaction. Also the presence of reducing agent makes up for any oxygen which may have gotten into the system. Oxygen oxidises the Cu(I) to Cu(II) which impedes the reaction and results in low yields. One of the more commonly used Cu compounds is CuSO4.
- Oxidation of Cu(0) metal
- Halides of copper may be used where solubility is an issue. However, the iodide and bromide Cu salts require either the presence of amines or higher temperatures.
Commonly used solvents are polar aprotic solvents such as THF, DMSO, acetonitrile, DMF as well as in non-polar aprotic solvents such as toluene. Neat solvents or a mixture of solvents may be used.
DIPEA (N,N-Diisopropylethylamine) and Et3N (triethylamine) are commonly used bases.[12]
Mechanism
A mechanism for the reaction has been suggested based on density functional theory calculations.[13] Copper is a 1st row transition metal. It has the electronic configuration [Ar] 3d10 4s1. The copper (I) species generated in situ forms a pi complex with the triple bond of a terminal alkyne. In the presence of a base, the terminal hydrogen, being the most acidic, is deprotonated first to give a Cu acetylide intermediate. Studies have shown that the reaction is second order with respect to Cu. It has been suggested that the transition state involves two copper atoms.[14][15][16][17][18][19] One copper atom is bonded to the acetylide while the other Cu atom serves to activate the azide. The metal center coordinates with the electrons on the nitrogen atom. The azide and the acetylide are not coordinated to the same Cu atom in this case. The ligands employed are labile and are weakly coordinating. The azide displaces one ligand to generate a copper-azide-acetylide complex. At this point cyclization takes place. This is followed by protonation; the source of proton being the hydrogen which was pulled off from the terminal acetylene by the base. The product is formed by dissociation and the catalyst ligand complex is regenerated for further reaction cycles.
The reaction is assisted by the copper, which, when coordinated with the acetylide lowers the pKa of the alkyne C-H by up to 9.8 units. Thus under certain conditions, the reaction may be carried out even in the absence of a base.
In the uncatalysed reaction the alkyne remains a poor electrophile. Thus high energy barriers lead to slow reaction rates.[20]

Ligand assistance
The ligands employed are usually labile i.e. they can be displaced easily. Though the ligand plays no direct role in the reaction the presence of a ligand has its advantages. The ligand protects the Cu ion from interactions leading to degradation and formation of side products and also prevents the oxidation of the Cu(I) species to the Cu(II). Furthermore, the ligand functions as a proton acceptor thus eliminating the need of a base.[21]
Ruthenium catalysis
The ruthenium-catalysed 1,3-dipolar azide-alkyne cycloaddition (RuAAC) gives the 1,5-triazole. Unlike CuAAC in which only terminal alkynes reacted, in RuAAC both terminal and internal alkynes can participate in the reaction. This suggests that ruthenium acetylides are not involved in the catalytic cycle.
The proposed mechanism suggests that in the first step, the spectator ligands undergo displacement reaction to produce an activated complex which is converted, through oxidative coupling of an alkyne and an azide to the ruthenium containing metallocyle (Ruthenacycle). The new C-N bond is formed between the more electronegative and less sterically demanding carbon of the alkyne and the terminal nitrogen of the azide. The metallacycle intermediate then undergoes reductive elimination releasing the aromatic triazole product and regenerating the catalyst or the activated complex for further reaction cycles.
Cp*RuCl(PPh3)2, Cp*Ru(COD) and Cp*[RuCl4] are commonly used ruthenium catalysts. Catalysts containing cyclopentadienyl (Cp) group are also used. However, better results are observed with the pentamethylcyclopentadienyl(Cp*) version. This may be due to the sterically demanding Cp* group which facilitates the displacement of the spectator ligands.[22][23]

Silver catalysis
Recently, the discovery of a general Ag(I)-catalyzed azide–alkyne cycloaddition reaction (Ag-AAC) leading to 1,4-triazoles is reported. Mechanistic features are similar to the generally accepted mechanism of the copper(I)-catalyzed process. Silver(I)-salts alone are not sufficient to promote the cycloaddition. However the ligated Ag(I) source has proven to be exceptional for AgAAC reaction.[24][25] Curiously, pre-formed silver acetylides do not react with azides; however, silver acetylides do react with azides under catalysis with copper(I).[26]
Topochemical azide-alkyne cycloaddition (TAAC)[edit source]
Kana M. Sureshan at IISER Thiruvananthapuram has developed and popularized a new branch namely, Topochemical Azide-Alkyne Cycloaddition (TAAC) reaction[27] or topochemical click reaction.[28] As topochemical reactions occur in the crystal lattice, they are green reactions, which neither require catalysts nor solvents.[29] [30]Sureshan group used crystal engineering to design molecular crystals of various monomers decorated with azide and alkyne units and polymerized such clickable monomers in the crystal state. The molecular design allowed Sureshan group to obtain crystals having head-to-tail arrangement of the monomer molecules with azide and alkyne groups at proximity in the crystal lattice. Apart from the strong supramolecular glues such as hydrogen bonding which dictated the molecular packing, weaker non-covalent interactions viz. the azide…oxygen interaction[31][32] and azide…alkyne interaction[33] have been recognized as additional supramolecular forces that help in proximal packing. Such crystals, upon mild heaing, undergo regiospecific lattice-controlled azide-alkyne cycloaddition reaction to yield triazole-linked polymers. In some cases, the reaction occurs spontaneously at room temperature also.
TAAC reaction is highly regiospecific and the regiochemistry is dictated by the relative orientation of the azide and alkyne units in the crystal lattice. Sureshan group could achieve the synthesis of various 1,5-triazole-linked polymers and1,4-triazole-linked polymers exclusively. Rarely, they have observed the formation two different polymers in a single crystal; one polymer with 1,4-triazole linkage and other polymer with 1,5-triazole-linkage.[34] Authors employed cocrystal strategy to finetune the selectivity in such cases to yield one type of polymer.[35]
This reaction has been used successful for the polymerisation of peptides,[36] carbohydrates,[37][38] cyclitols,[39] nucleic acids,[40][41] and fumaramides.[42] One of the important advantages of TAAC polymerization is that the reaction often follows a single-crystal-to-single-crystal (SCSC) pathway, which allow these researchers to dissect the structure and conformation of the resultant polymers by single crystal X-ray diffraction. This is a feat not possible for polymers synthesized by normal solution-phase chemistry. TAAC polymerization of peptide-monomers gave crystalline protein-mimics having secondary structures such as beta-sheet,[43] beta-meander,[44] and helix,[45] and having novel cross-laminated[46] and twist-stacked[47] packing topologies. The crystallinity offered interesting properties such as water sorption,[48][49] mechanical properties[50] etc. to these materials.
One of the limitations of the CuAAC click reaction is the non-reactivity of internal alkynes. The Sureshan group has proven that the TAAC reaction works well with internal alkynes too.[51] Furthermore, TAAC reaction has great potentials in developing different polymorphs of the same polymer, which is almost impossible using polymers synthesized via the conventional solution-phase synthesis due to the thermodynamic factors that prevent their crystallization.[52][53] Many a times, TAAC polymerization occurred even when the monomer packing was not conducive for proximity-driven reaction. Authors established that the molecular motion in the crystal lattice allow the reaction partners to reach an orientation suitable for their reaction transiently.[54] Apart from polymer synthesis, TAAC reaction has also been successful for synthesizing a homodimer,[55] heterodimer[56] and oligomers[57] of carbohydrate derived monomers. Advancing this green chemistry further, Sureshan group has developed the novel Topochemical Ene-Azide Cycloaddition (TEAC) reaction[58] which has been exploited for the synthesis helical covalent polymers.[59]
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