100618-94-8Relevant articles and documents
One-pot synthesis of N-substituted pantolactams from pantolactone
Barrios, Ivana,Camps, Pelayo,Comes-Franchini, Mauro,Mu?oz-Torrero, Diego,Ricci, Alfredo,Sánchez, Laura
, p. 1971 - 1979 (2007/10/03)
Rac-N-substituted pantolactams (5) are readily obtained in medium to good yields by reaction of rac-pantolactone (1) with primary amines under acid catalysis, whether at 250°C in a pressure reactor or under microwave irradiation. It appears that the amine can react with pantolactone at the carbonyl carbon atom to give a hydroxyamide (3) in a reversible way and at the methylene carbon atom to give a γ-amino acid (4). The last one on dehydration would give the corresponding pantolactam (5).