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Carbamate Synthesis Using a Shelf-Stable and Renewable C1 Reactant
Dobi, Zoltán,Reddy, B. Narendraprasad,Renders, Evelien,Van Raemdonck, Laurent,Mensch, Carl,De Smet, Gilles,Chen, Chen,Bheeter, Charles,Sergeyev, Sergey,Herrebout, Wouter A.,Maes, Bert U. W.
, p. 3103 - 3114 (2019)
4-Propylcatechol carbonate is a shelf-stable, renewable C1 reactant. It is easily prepared from renewable 4-propylcatechol (derived from wood) and dimethyl carbonate (derived from CO2) using a reactive distillation system. In this work, the 4-propylcatechol carbonate is used for the two-step synthesis of carbamates under mild reaction conditions. In the first step, 4-propylcatechol carbonate is treated with an alcohol at 50–80 °C in the presence of a Lewis acid catalyst, such as Zn(OAc)2?2 H2O. With liquid alcohols, no solvent is used and with solid alcohols 2-methyltetrahydrofuran is used as solvent. In the second step, the alkyl 2-hydroxy-propylphenyl carbonate intermediates obtained react with amines at room temperature in 2-methyltetrahydrofuran, forming the target carbamates and the byproduct 4-propylcatechol, which can be recycled into a carbonate reactant.
