452-10-8Relevant articles and documents
Magnesium oxide as a heterogeneous and recyclable base for the N-methylation of indole and O-methylation of phenol using dimethyl carbonate as a green methylating agent
Gadge, Sandip T.,Mishra, Ashish,Gajengi, Aravind L.,Shahi, Nileshkumar V.,Bhanage, Bhalchandra M.
, p. 50271 - 50276 (2014/12/10)
This work reports a mild efficient and sustainable protocol for N-methylation of indole and O-methylation of phenol using dimethylcarbonate as an environmentally safe, non-toxic, biodegradable and green methylating agent under microwave conditions. Magnesium oxide (MgO) has been employed as a heterogeneous and recyclable base for clean N-methylation of indole and O-methylation of phenol with dimethylcarbonate. Basic properties of the fresh and recycled MgO were measured by temperature programmed desorption (CO2-TPD) analysis. The CO2-TPD runs suggested that both strong and moderately basic sites are present on the oxide, while only the moderately basic sites are responsible for the N-and O-methylation of indole and phenol, respectively, using DMC as a methylating agent. The CO2-TPD analysis showed that the basic sites on fresh and recycled MgO were comparable. The MgO was isolated by simple filtration and recycled efficiently without loss in activity and selectivity.
First application of ionic liquids in electrophilic fluorination of arenes; Selectfluor (F-TEDA-BF4) for "green" fluorination
Laali, Kenneth K.,Borodkin, Gennady I.
, p. 953 - 957 (2007/10/03)
The NF fluorinating agent F-TEDA-BF4 dication salt (Selectfluor) 1 dissolves in imidazolium-based ionic liquids [emim][OTf] 7, [emim][BF4] 8, [bmim][PF6] 9 and [bmim][BF4] 10 (assisted by sonication), providing a convenient medium for fluorination of arenes under essentially acid-free conditions in a simple set-up (no volatile solvent; simple extraction of the aromatics without aqueous work-up), from which the ionic liquid can be easily recycled and reused. Comparative studies in [emim][OTf] 7 with anisole as substrate show that 1 is superior to NFTh-BF4 (Accufluor) 2 and that the N-fluoropyridinium salt NFPy-B2F7 4 is least effective. The scope of the reaction has been surveyed. Substrate selectivity (k mesitylene: k durene = 10) measured in competitive experiments in 7 is clearly indicative of a conventional polar mechanism. Substrate selectivity measured without the ionic liquid in MeCN solvent is also indicative of a polar mechanism but exhibits lower magnitude (k mesitylene: kdurene = 6). Addition of dicyclohexano-24-crown-8 to the fluorination reaction mixture (1 and anisole) in 7 reduced the conversion but did not change the isomer distribution. AM1 minimization was used to model the complexation of 1 with this crown. With reactive aromatics optimal fluorination yields in ionic liquids (using 1 equivalent of the NF reagent) are around 50% (higher for naphthalene). A key control experiment suggests that the free base (produced upon transfer-fluorination) could complex to unreacted 1 (generating a bulky dimer complex which may be ineffective for fluorine transfer) in competition to N-protonation.
N,N′-Difluoro-1,4-diazoniabicyclo[2.2.2]octane Salts, Highly Reactive and Easy-to-Handle Electrophilic Fluorinating Agents
Umemoto, Teruo,Nagayoshi, Masayuki
, p. 2287 - 2295 (2007/10/03)
A series of N,N′-difluoro-1,4-diazoniabicyclo[2.2.2]octane salts were synthesized in a pure form by the fluorination of 1,4-diazabicyclo[2.2.2]octane with F2 diluted with N2 in the presence of a Bronsted acid in fluoro alcohol or acetonitrile or by fluorination followed by a treatment with a different Bronsted or Lewis acid. Their complete structural assignment was made based on spectral and elemental analyses of the isolated crystals. A great through-bond interaction between the two N-F's of the salt was observed on 19FNMR. An assessment was made of the usefulness of N,N′-difluoro-1,4-diazoniabicyclo[2.2.2]octane bis(triflate), bis(HSO2), bis(BF4), and bis(SbF6) salts for electrophilic fluorination; the bis-(BF4) salt was demonstrated to be widely applicable as a highly reactive and easy-to-handle fluorinating agent. Thus, the bis(BF4) salt readily fluorinated activated aromatics, active methylene compounds or their salts, substituted styrenes, and vinyl acetates under mild conditions. It was shown that one N-F of the salt was effective for fluorination and that the other N-F played a role to activate fluorination through the bonds. Thus, the reaction mechanism was discussed, and fluorination followed by an immediate intramolecular one-electron transfer was suggested.
