19035-03-1Relevant articles and documents
Chemoselective isocyanide insertion into the N-H bond using iodine-DMSO: Metal-free access to substituted ureas
Bora, Porag,Bez, Ghanashyam
supporting information, p. 8363 - 8366 (2018/08/03)
Insertion of isocyanides into the N-H bond gives access to many medicinally important and structurally diverse complex nitrogen-containing heterocycles. Although the transition metal catalyzed isocyanide insertion into the N-H bond is very common, polymerization of isocyanides in the presence of a transition metal and their strong coordination with metals are the common drawbacks. On the other hand, the inertness of most of the isocyanides towards amines in the absence of a metal catalyst has stymied the growth of the metal-free approach for isocyanide insertion into amines. As a result, only a handful of metal catalysed methods with limited substrate scopes have been reported for the synthesis of ureas via isocyanide insertion into amines and no metal-free version has been reported yet. Interestingly, chemoselective isocyanide insertion into amines has not been reported in the literature. We employed the I2-DMSO reagent system for the chemoselective synthesis of ureas, where isocyanides react with aliphatic amines only, while aromatic amines need a nucleophilic activator (DABCO) to facilitate the formation of ureas. This method gave direct and chemoselective access to ureas by evading the commonly used yet toxic isocyanates.
A synthetic N, N '-di-substituted ureas method
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Paragraph 0195-0198, (2016/11/17)
The invention discloses a method for synthesizing N,N'-disubstituent urea. The method comprises the following steps: adding N-substituent urea, a metal iridium, rhodium or ruthenium complex catalyst, an alkali, a compound alcohol and a solvent (or no solvent) to a reaction container; reacting at 90-130 DEG C for a plurality of hours and cooling the reaction mixture to room temperature; carrying out rotary evaporation to remove the solvent, and then separating through a column, so as to obtain a target compound. Compared with the prior art, N,N'-disubstituent urea which is obtained by regional selective alkylation reaction between commercial or easily synthesized N-substituent urea and the alcohol reflects and displays three significant advantages: 1) the alcohol which is nearly non-toxic is utilized as an alkylating reagent; 2) just water is generated as a by-product in the reaction, and harm to environment is not generated; 3) reaction atom economy is high. Therefore, the reaction accords with the requirements of green chemistry, and has a broad development prospect.
One-pot sequential synthesis of isocyanates and urea derivatives via a microwave-assisted Staudinger-aza-Wittig reaction
Carnaroglio, Diego,Martina, Katia,Palmisano, Giovanni,Penoni, Andrea,Domini, Claudia,Cravotto, Giancarlo
supporting information, p. 2378 - 2386 (2014/01/06)
A fast and efficient protocol for the synthesis of N,N'-disubstituted urea derivatives from alkyl halides and primary or secondary amines has been developed. The synthetic pathway combines nucleophilic substitutions and a Staudinger-aza-Wittig reaction in the presence of polymer-bound diphenylphosphine under 14 bar of CO2 pressure and has been performed in a one-pot two-step process. The protocol has been optimized under microwave irradiation and the scale-up experiment has been conducted under conventional conditions in a Parr reactor. The final compounds were isolated after simple filtration in almost quantitative overall yields which makes this procedure facile and rapid to execute.
