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One-pot, chemoselective synthesis of secondary amines from aryl nitriles using a PdPt-Fe3O4nanoparticle catalyst
Byun, Sangmoon,Cho, Ahra,Cho, Jin Hee,Kim, B. Moon
, p. 4201 - 4209 (2020/09/23)
We have developed a new catalytic method for the one-pot, cascade synthesis of unsymmetrical secondary amines via the reductive amination of aryl nitriles with nitroalkanes using a PdPt-Fe3O4 nanoparticle (NP) catalyst. The use of a bimetallic catalyst resulted in enhanced reactivity and selectivity compared to that of either monometallic Pd-Fe3O4 or the Pt-Fe3O4 NP catalyst. Using this bimetallic catalytic system, we were successful in the synthesis of various unsymmetrical secondary amines under mild conditions. However, aryl nitriles containing an electron-donating substituent were rather resistant to the reductive amination, and when hexafluoroisopropanol (HFIP) was used as a co-solvent, the reaction selectivity and yield for unsymmetrical secondary amines increased dramatically. Using the catalyst system, one-pot, gram-scale synthesis of indole was possible from 2-nitrophenylacetonitrile. Due to the magnetic property of the Fe3O4 support, the bimetallic catalyst could easily be recycled using an external magnet at least four times.
