Organic Process Research and Development p. 2445 - 2455 (2019)
Update date:2022-09-26
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Znidar, Desiree
O'Kearney-Mcmullan, Anne
Munday, Rachel
Wiles, Charlotte
Poechlauer, Peter
Schmoelzer, Christoph
Dallinger, Doris
Kappe, C. Oliver
A safe and scalable continuous flow strategy for Wolff-Kishner reductions that employs methanol as the solvent has been developed. The use of low-cost hydrazine as the reducing agent in combination with a caustic base provides an atom-efficient, environmentally friendly method for the deoxygenation of aldehydes and ketones to alkanes. Because of the required harsh and corrosive reaction conditions (200 °C, 50 bar), reactor materials such as stainless steel, glass, or any type of polymer have compatibility problems, rendering this process problematic on a production scale. The use of corrosion-resistant silicon carbide (SiC) as the reactor material opens up the possibility of performing Wolff-Kishner reductions on scale with a considerably improved safety profile. Methanol as the solvent significantly simplifies the workup procedure compared with the generally employed high-boiling solvents such as diethylene glycol. The continuous flow protocol was applied to a number of substrates and provided the desired products in good to high yields with space-time yields of up to 152 g L-1 h-1. In addition, a pharmaceutically valuable active pharmaceutical ingredient precursor was synthesized by employing this higherature/pressure Wolff-Kishner protocol.
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