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C13H11NO2: C, 73.22; H, 5.20; N, 6.57. Found (%): C,
72.98; H, 5.13; N, 6.48.
out by thermal heating conditions as shown in
Table 1. The optimization of the process by varying
temperature, time, and TSIL-OPPh2 was done to get
products in high yields and purity. The yields of the
products obtained by microwave irradiation verses
thermal heating are higher with remarkable reduc-
tion in reaction time due to homogeneous heating
(as a result of strong agitation of reactant molecules)
throughout the reaction media by microwave irradi-
ation as compared to convection currents in ther-
mal heating. This methodology avoids the use of any
base, solvents and requires equimolar amount of the
ionic liquid to promote the reaction.
C-(2,3-Dihydroxyphenyl)-N-phenyl-nitrone (3i).
IR νmax/cm−1: 3450–3000 (OH), 1569 (C N), 1151
(N O), and 1035 (C O). 1H NMR (400 MHz, CDCl3):
δ 12.40 (s, 1H, OH), 8.00 (s, 1H, nitronyl H),
7.77–7.75 (m, 2H, ArH), 7.52–7.47 (m, 5H, ArH and
OH), 7.30 (d, J = 2.3 Hz, 1H), 6.90 (d, J = 8.88 Hz,
1H); 13C NMR (CDCl3, 75 MHz): δ 159.04, 145.92,
139.56, 137.07, 134.38, 130.82, 129.46, 122.29,
121.79, 118.70, 110.70; ESI-MS [MH]+ m/z 230; Anal.
Calcd (%) for C13H11NO3: C, 68.11; H, 4.84; N, 6.11.
Found (%): C, 68.05; H, 4.83; N, 6.09.
To determine whether the ionic liquid was
an essential factor to promote this process,
the reaction of N-phenylhydroxylamine with 4-
methoxybenzaldehyde as a model was carried out
using several butylmethylimidazolium-based ionic
liquids (ILs), [bmim]X, with varying anions such as
C-(4-Pyridyl)-N-(t-butyl)-nitrone (3p). IR νmax
/
cm−1: 1588 (C N), 1189 (N O), and 1099 (C O). 1H
NMR (300 MHz, CDCl3): δ 8.86 (m, 2H), 8.15 (m,
2H), 7.58 (s, 1H, nitronyl H), 1.54 (s, 9H); 13C NMR
(CDCl3, 75 MHz): δ 148.28, 137.18, 128.47, 124.44,
74.34, 51.40, 27.35, 27.20, 27.15; ESI-MS [MH]+ m/z
179; Anal. Calcd (%) for C11H15NO: C, 74.54; H, 8.53;
N, 7.90. Found (%): C, 75.01; H, 8.41; N, 7.75.
−
Cl−, BF4−, and PF6 under microwave irradiation.
With these ionic liquids, the reaction times were
longer and the yield of product 3k was lower than
those in TSIL-OPPh2 under the same conditions.
Next, to improve the yields, we performed the re-
actions using different quantities of reagents. The
best results were obtained with a 1:1:1 ratio of ary-
laldehyde, N-monosubstituted hydroxylamine, and
C-(2-Furyl)-N-benzyl-nitrone (3r). IR νmax/cm−1:
1582 (C N), 1137 (N O), and 1009 (C O). 1H NMR
(300 MHz, CDCl3): δ 7.79 (m, 1H), 7.62–7.30 (m,
7H), 7.64 (m, 1H), 5.16 (s, 2H); 13C NMR (CDCl3,
75 MHz): δ 145.13, 143.09, 133.51, 129.01, 128.14,
128.04, 125.14, 116.30, 113.44, 69.02; ESI-MS [MH]+
m/z 202; Anal. Calcd (%) for C12H11NO2: C, 71.63; H,
5.51; N, 6.96. Found (%): C, 71.72; H, 5.42; N, 6.81.
IL-OPPh2, respectively. For example,
a com-
plete conversion was obtained for the reaction
of 2-hydroxy-4-methoxybenzaldehyde and 4-pyridyl
aldehyde after 3.5 and 5 min, respectively, under mi-
crowave irradiation (Table 1, entries 13 and 16).
A large variety of nitrones were successfully
synthesized in high yields by following the above
method. The products can be separated from the
ionic liquid system by simple extraction with ether
and ethyl acetate in all examined cases. The results of
the synthesis of different nitrones 3a–s are presented
in Table 1. To examine the versatility of this proce-
dure, the reactions of N-monosubstituted hydroxy-
lamine with arylaldehydes containing electron-rich,
electron-poor, or electron-neutral substituents were
examined. The results are listed in Table 1. It
shows that yields (>92% yields) were satisfactory
under microwave irradiation conditions. On the
other hand, the relatively hindered aldehydes, i.e.,
2-naphtylaldehyde, 2,3-dihydroxybenzaldehyde, and
2-hydroxy-5-methoxybenzaldehyde also led to the
good yields of the related nitrones (entries 9, 15, 19).
The reactions worked well with aromatic aldehydes.
However, aliphatic aldehydes, such as propionalde-
hyde and butyraldehyde did not react efficiently with
N-phenylhydroxylamine or N-methylhydroxylamine
under similar conditions in the presence of task-
specific ionic liquid, TSIL-OPPh2, and significant
C-(2-Naphthyl)-N-benzyl-nitrone (3s). IR νmax
/
cm−1: 1572 (C N), 1161 (N O), and 1119 (C O).
1H NMR (300 MHz, CDCl3): δ 9.20 (s, CH=N, 1H),
7.89–7.74 (m, 4H), 7.62–7.28 (m, 8H), 5.10 (s, 2H);
13C NMR (CDCl3, 75 MHz): δ 136.13, 135.21, 132.32,
132.01, 129.16, 129.06, 129.00, 128.21, 128.40,
127.83, 127.64, 127.46, 127.30, 126.41, 125.45,
70.32; ESI-MS [MH]+ m/z 262; Anal. Calcd (%) for
C18H15NO: C, 82.73; H, 5.79; N, 5.36. Found (%): C,
82.75; H, 5.76; N, 5.32.
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
We have recently introduced an imidazolium-based
phosphinite ionic liquid for the Horner–Wadsworth–
Emmons-type reaction [27]. In the present re-
port, an equimolar quantity of the phosphinite-
functionalized imidazolium salt, TSIL-OPPh2, as a
Lewis base, gives clean nitrones by the condensa-
tion of aldehydes with N-monosubstituted hydroxy-
lamines in high yields under microwave irradiation.
For comparison, the reaction has also been carried
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