A facile and highly efficient route to a traceless pi-arene chromium linker. Applications to synthetic and combinatorial chemistry.

[reaction--see text] A simple and efficient method for the attachment of functionalized arene chromium carbonyls to a polymeric support has been developed. A highly efficient solid-phase synthesis of tertiary alcohols and esters was performed in a traceless manner using this strategy. The linker-fabrication protocol permits simultaneous immobilization of various substrates on the solid support.