An efficient synthesis of chlorogermane linker 12 is described. Economic introduction of germanium into this linker is accomplished by insertion of dichlorogermylene [from germanium(IV) chloride] into the homobenzylic C-Cl bond of 4-(2-chloroethyl)phenol 1. Using linker 12, transmetalation with lithiated 4-acetophenone, 3-acetophenone, and 4-(4'methoxy)biphenyl followed by Mitsunobu-type coupling to Argogel gives functionalized resins 14, 16, and 18, respectively. Treatment of resin 18 with TFA, ICl, Br2, or NCS effects clean ipso-degermylation releasing biphenyls 19-22, respectively. Resins 14 and 16 are employed for the parallel synthesis of a library of pyrazoles by enaminone formation (using Bredereck's reagent), condensative ring-closure (using a series of monosubstituted hydrazines), and cleavage (using TFA and Br2). Analysis of this library reveals the influence of the hydrazine substituent on both the regioselectivity of ring-closure and the propensity for electrophilic substitution at the 4-position of the pyrazoles during ipso-degermylative cleavage.
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