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Aust. J. Chem. 2015, 68, 926–930
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A Green Approach for Copper-Free Sonogashira Reaction
of Aryl Halides with Phenylacetylene in the Presence
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of Nano-Pd/Phosphorylated Silica (SDPP/Pd )
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Nasser Iranpoor,
HAabib Firouzabadi,
Somayeh Motevalli,
and Khashayar Rajabi
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Department of Chemistry, Shiraz University, Shiraz, 71454, Iran.
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Corresponding authors. Email: iranpoor@susc.ac.ir; firouzabadi@susc.ac.ir
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Silicadiphenyl phosphinite (SDPP) is used as the solid support for the generation of nano SDPP/Pd(0) from Pd as pre-
catalyst. This nano catalyst was used for the efficient copper-free Sonogashira reaction of aryl halides in PEG-200 as a
solvent. The nano Pd(0) that can be used as pre-prepared or as in situ-generated catalyst exhibited excellent reactivity and
stability in the Sonogashira cross-coupling reactions with different aryl iodides, bromides, and also chlorides. This
heterogeneous catalyst can be easily recovered and reused in several runs. The use of PEG as solvent and K CO as
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inorganic base together with the heterogeneous nature of the reaction can be considered as green conditions for this
reaction.
Manuscript received: 29 May 2014.
Manuscript accepted: 4 September 2014.
Published online: 24 November 2014.
Introduction
studies on heterogeneous catalysis based on nano palladium
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One of the most straightforward methods for the preparation of
aryl alkynes and conjugated enynes is the palladium-catalyzed
coupling of terminal alkynes with aryl or alkenyl halides that
supported on silica for C–C bond formation, we herein report
the excellent efficiency, stability, and recyclability of nano
Pd(0)/SDPP catalyst in the Sonogashira cross coupling reaction
with different aryl iodides, bromides, and also chlorides.
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was described for the first time by Sonogashira et al. in 1975.
The most common competitive pathway as side reaction that
can affect the efficiency and yield of the Sonogashira coupling
is homocoupling of the alkynes to diynes (Glaser-type cou-
Results and Discussion
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Preparation of the Catalyst
pling). Hence, since 1992, for the cross-coupling reaction of
alkynes with aryl- or vinyl-halides, several improvements
have been reported. One of the most important solutions from
industrial points of concern is efficient copper-free Sonogashira
The Pd(0) metal complex of silicadiphenyl phosphinite
(SDPP), Pd(0){PPh O-SiO } , was prepared according to our
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previous report.
We have shown that P atoms are coordi-
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reaction in the presence of homogeneous catalytic systems.
CuI can induce homocoupling reactions of terminal alkynes to
nated initially to the Pd centre, followed by the reduction to
Pd(0) by another phosphinite group, and eventually the active
Pd(0) catalyst as a black insoluble mass is obtained. According
to inductively coupled plasma (ICP) analysis of several sam-
ples on the digested catalyst in refluxing aqueous HCl (37 %),
a Pd content of 2.5–27 mmol per 1 g of Pd immobilized on
SDPP was obtained. The scanning electron microscopy (SEM)
image shows particles with diameters in the nanometer scale as
presented in Fig. 1. Further information about the size of the
Pd particles was obtained by transmission electron microscopy
(TEM) analysis of the catalyst that showed that Pd nano-
particles (size: 7 nm) formed and dispersed in the silica matrix
(Fig. 2). As observed from the X-ray diffraction (XRD) pat-
tern, the Pd catalyst shows the (111), (200), (220), (311), and
(222) crystallographic planes of the Pd(0) nanoparticles
(Fig. 3). The Pd nanoparticle size from the XRD pattern was
estimated to be 8 nm which is in good agreement with the
results obtained from TEM (Fig. 2) and histogram (Fig. 4)
analysis.
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diynes in the presence of oxygen. Though these examples
contributed to the improvement of the Sonogashira reaction, the
use of homogeneous Pd catalysts has several drawbacks, in
particular, its limited thermal stability, the precipitation of pal-
ladium black, which limits the lifetime of the active species, and
problems associated with catalyst recycling. This leads to a loss
of expensive metal and ligands, formation of impurities in the
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products, and the need to remove residual metals. To over-
come these problems, heterogeneous catalysts have been
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developed for the Sonogashira cross-coupling reactions.
Chemists have made considerable achievements in heteroge-
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neous catalysis and, recently, nanocatalysis. Heterogeneous
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catalysts supported on a solid support, such as CNs, metal
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oxides mainly silica, clays, organic polymers, such as
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polymeric N-heterocyclic carbene ligand-grafted silica,
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and
have found
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gelatin and agarose as bioorganic supports,
considerable synthetic applications. In continuation of our
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