- Reduction and Reductive Deuteration of Tertiary Amides Mediated by Sodium Dispersions with Distinct Proton Donor-Dependent Chemoselectivity
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A practical and scalable single electron transfer reduction mediated by sodium dispersions has been developed for the reduction and reductive deuteration of tertiary amides. The chemoselectivity of this method highly depends on the nature of the proton donor. The challenging reduction via C-N bond cleavage has been achieved using Na/EtOH, affording alcohol products, while the use of Na/NaOH/H2O leads to the formation of amines via selective C-O scission. Sodium dispersions with high specific surface areas are crucial to obtain high yields and good chemoselectivity. This new method tolerates a range of tertiary amides. Moreover, the corresponding reductive deuterations mediated by Na/EtOD-d1 and Na/NaOH/D2O afford useful α,α-dideuterio alcohols and α,α-dideuterio amines with an excellent deuterium content.
- Zhang, Bin,Li, Hengzhao,Ding, Yuxuan,Yan, Yuhao,An, Jie
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p. 6006 - 6014
(2018/05/24)
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- Tandem Transformation of Nitro Compounds into N-Methylated Amines: Greener Strategy for the Utilization of Methanol as a Methylating Agent
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A simple air- and moisture-stable, highly efficient ruthenium NNN pincer complex is reported for the first time to catalyze the tandem transformation of various aromatic and aliphatic nitro compounds into the corresponding N-methylated amines in up to 98 % yield by using methanol as a green methylating agent. Gram-scale reactions of challenging nitro substrates demonstrated the practical application aspects of this catalytic system. Importantly, the N-methylamine moiety could be smoothly introduced to various complex molecular structures without using any expensive palladium/phosphine/amine-based cross-coupling reactions.
- Paul, Bhaskar,Shee, Sujan,Chakrabarti, Kaushik,Kundu, Sabuj
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p. 2370 - 2374
(2017/06/13)
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- Vernonia oil: Conversion to a mixture of tertiary amines including N,N-Dimethyl-(12S,13R)-Epoxy-cis-9-Octadecenyl amine
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Vernonia galamensis is a new potential industrial oilseed crop found in tropical Africa. It is the source of a naturally epoxidized oil called vernonia oil (VO) which is extracted from the seed of the plant. In this study VO was used as the starting material for the synthesis of a mixture of amines, with the major product amine being N,N-dimethyl-(12S,13R)-epoxy-cis-9-octadecenyl amine. VO was transesterified via a base catalyzed methanolysis using sodium methoxide to yield VO methyl esters (VOME). Aminolysis of the VOME with dimethylamine as reagent and solvent under reflux conditions afforded the tertiary amides, with N,N- dimethyl-(12S,13R)-epoxy-cis-9-octadecenyl amide as the major product. The mixture was then subjected to metal hydride reduction with lithium aluminum hydride in diethylether under reflux conditions to obtain the desired amine mixture including N,N-dimethyl-(12S,13R)-epoxy-cis-9-octadecenyl amine. Electron impact mass spectrometry was used to characterize the mixture of amines. Additionally, proton NMR, 13C NMR, and FTIR were used for characterization of N,N-dimethyl-(12S,13R)-epoxy-cis-9-octadecenyl amine. To further confirm the conversion of VO to the amines, the quaternary ammonium salts were synthesized and characterized by matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry.
- Johnson, Nikki S.,Ayorinde, Folahan O.
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p. 1425 - 1430
(2011/11/11)
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