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Scheme 1. Oxidation of alcohols catalysed by FeCl /[Gmim]Cl.
Table 1
l-1H-imidazole-3-ium chloride) [Gmim]Cl. The solvent (acetonitrile)
was removed under reduced pressure at 80 OC. Then the residue was
a
Optimization of oxidation reaction. .
Entry
Different Solvent
Time (hrs)
Conv. (%)b
Yield (%)c
mixed with 50 mL water and extracted with ethyl acetate (3 ꢀ 5 mL).
Blankd
Toluene
DCM
EtOAc
DME
THF
Further, the water phase was evaporated under reduced pressure at 80
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
24
24
24
24
24
24
24
24
24
10
10
10
15
3
2
O
31
26
18
22
28
34
40
20
96
97
96
96
96
95
28
24
17
20
27
33
37
19
94
95
94
94
94
92
C until the mass of the residue did not change.
2.3. Typical oxidation procedure
MeCN
3
To a mixture of FeCl (0.25 mol%), [Gmim]Cl (1 mL), benzyl alcohol
CHCl
DMF
3
(10 mmol) and H
O
(1.2 mmol) was slowly added. The resulting reac-
2
2
ꢁ
tion mixture was stirred at room (25 C) temperature for 10 min. After
completion of the reaction, ether was added (3 ꢀ 5 mL) to separate the
product from catalyst. The organic layer was concentrated and purified
by column chromatography to give the benzaldehyde.
e
10
11
12
13
14
15
[Gmim]Cl
[Gmim]Cl
[Gmim]Cl
[Gmim]Cl
[Gmim]Cl
[Gmim]Cl
e,f
e,g
e,h
e,i
10
10
e,j
3
. Results and discussion
a
Reaction condition: Benzyl alcohol (1 mmol), Hydrogen perxide (1.2 mmol),
O
FeCl
3
(0.25 mol%), [Gmim]Cl (1 mL) at 25 C for 10 min.
To get information on the optimal catalyst conditions, we carried out
intensive examinations to define the suitable solvent for this benzyl
alcohol oxidation reaction. According to publications from Rani and Bhat
b
Based on GC.
Isolated yield by flash chromatography.
Absence of catalyst.
Time in mints.
Increases of conc. of FeCl
Increases of conc. of H
Time to increase from 10 to 15 mints.
Temperature (30 C).
c
d
e
f
[
52], Hergovich and Speier [53] and Renhua Liu [54] polar, non-polar
solvents tend to give the best results for the oxidation reaction, while
Ma [55] obtained high-activity of catalysts in DCE solvent. Among the
previous reports, alcohol oxidation in absence polar and non-polar sol-
vents was the most productive (Table 1, entries 2–9). This may be due to
3
from 0.25 to 0.5 mol%.
as the oxidant from 10% to 30%.
g
h
i
2
O
2
ꢁ
ꢁ
j
the easy coordination of FeCl
3
with organic co-solvents. Our goal was to
Temperature (20 C).
employ FeCl under ligand, organic solvent-free conditions to effect the
3
alcohol oxidation reaction on a recyclable basis. Amino acid functional-
ised ionic liquids were chosen because of their recyclability and reus-
ability. The products can be easily separated from the FeCl catalysts
3
dissolved in ionic liquids by simple extraction with normal organic sol-
vents. We reasoned that if the ligand has an imidazole moiety, it will have
high solubility in ionic liquids having the imidazole skeleton.
liquids, as catalyst for oxidation of alcohols. This prompted us to study
the possibility of the oxidation of alcohols to carbonyl compounds in the
3 2 2
presence of FeCl /[Gmim]Cl under mild conditions using H O as
oxidant (Scheme 1).
2. Experimental
Subsequent, the combination of glycine functionalised ionic liquids
3
with FeCl was tried as the catalyst for the oxidation reaction. As shown
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.1. Materials and methods
in (Table 1, entry 10) the catalytic oxidation continued with mild con-
version of alcohol to aldehyde with satisfactory yield. Furthermore, ac-
cording to literature, Renhua Liu and co-workers obtained good yield in
the oxidation reaction of primary alcohols to the aldehydes using iron
All solvents and chemicals were commercially available and used
1
without further purification unless otherwise stated. The H NMR spectra
were recorded on a Bruker 500 MHz using CDCl as the solvent and mass
3
O
chloride (0.25 mmol) stirred at 50 C and oxygen pressure of 0.4 MPa for
spectra were recorded on JEOL GC MATE II HRMS (EI) spectrometer. FT-
IR was recorded on AVATRA 330 spectrometer with DTGS detector.
Column chromatography was performed on silica gel (200–300 mesh).
Analytical thin-layer chromatography (TLC) was carried out on pre-
coated silica gel GF-254 plates.
3 3 2
03–23 h [54]. Using Fe(NO ) ⋅9H O in the 10 mol%, Ma et al. observed
acceptable rate in the oxidation [55]. Among the previous reports,
increasing the quantity of the catalyst can improve the reaction yield and
shorten reaction time. However, the influences of the amount of FeCl
and H were also examined. It is renowned that increasing increase
from 0.25 to 0.5 mol% the quantity of FeCl led to improved yield
(Table 1, entry 11). However, the quantity of H increased from 10%
3
2 2
O
3
2
.2. Synthesis of [Gmim]Cl
2 2
O
to 30%, the reaction was not influenced to greater extent (Table 1, entry
12). It is found that the alcohol oxidation was very fast in 10 min and
nearly approached the chemical equilibrium subsequently 15 min
(Table 1, entry 13). However, temperature also plays a significant role in
The catalyst [Gmim]Cl was synthesized and reported [50,51]. First,
chloroglycine (0.01 mol) reacted with N-Methylimidazole (0.11 mol) in
O
5
0 mL acetonitrile at 70 C for 24 h to generate chloroglycine ligand
O
modified by imidazole salt (3-(amino(carboxy)methyl)-1-methy
the model reaction. When we conducted the oxidation reaction at 30 C,
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