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Base-Catalyzed Hydrosilylation of Nitriles to Amines and Esters to Alcohols
Clarke, Joshua A.,Nikonov, Georgii I.,van der Est, Art
supporting information, p. 4434 - 4439 (2021/08/30)
Base-catalyzed hydrosilylation of nitriles to amines and esters to silylated alcohols is reported. This protocol tolerates electron-rich and electron-neutral olefins and works in the presence of basic functional groups (e. g. tertiary amines) but fails for acidic substrates, such as phenols and NH anilines. This catalytic system does not tolerate carbonyl groups, such as aldehydes, ketones, esters and carbamides, which are reduced to corresponding alcohols and amines. With the exact amount of silane, esters can be selectively reduced in the presence of nitriles, but the selectivity drops for the pairs ester/carboxamide and carboxamide/nitrile. Through competition experiments, the following preference in functional group reactivity was determined: ester > carboxamide > nitrile.
Green method for catalyzing reduction reaction of aliphatic nitro derivative
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Paragraph 0005-0006; 0017-0020, (2021/07/31)
The invention relates to a green method for catalyzing reduction reaction of aliphatic nitro derivatives. According to the method, non-transition metal compounds, namely triethyl boron and potassium tert-butoxide, are used as a catalytic system for the first time, an aliphatic nitro derivative and pinacolborane which is low in price and easy to obtain are catalyzed to be subjected to a reduction reaction under mild conditions, and an aliphatic amine hydrochloride product is synthesized after acidification with a hydrochloric acid aqueous solution. Compared with a traditional method, the method generally has the advantages that the catalyst is cheap and easy to obtain, operation is convenient, and reaction is safe. The selective reduction reaction of the aliphatic nitro derivative catalyzed by the non-transition metal catalyst and pinacol borane is realized for the first time, and the aliphatic amine hydrochloride product is synthesized through acidification treatment of the hydrochloric acid aqueous solution, so that a practical new reaction strategy is provided for laboratory preparation or industrial production.
Transition metal-free catalytic reduction of primary amides using an abnormal NHC based potassium complex: Integrating nucleophilicity with Lewis acidic activation
Bhunia, Mrinal,Sahoo, Sumeet Ranjan,Das, Arpan,Ahmed, Jasimuddin,Sreejyothi,Mandal, Swadhin K.
, p. 1848 - 1854 (2020/03/03)
An abnormal N-heterocyclic carbene (aNHC) based potassium complex was used as a transition metal-free catalyst for reduction of primary amides to corresponding primary amines under ambient conditions. Only 2 mol% loading of the catalyst exhibits a broad substrate scope including aromatic, aliphatic and heterocyclic primary amides with excellent functional group tolerance. This method was applicable for reduction of chiral amides and utilized for the synthesis of pharmaceutically valuable precursors on a gram scale. During mechanistic investigation, several intermediates were isolated and characterized through spectroscopic techniques and one of the catalytic intermediates was characterized through single-crystal XRD. A well-defined catalyst and isolable intermediate along with several stoichiometric experiments, in situ NMR experiments and the DFT study helped us to sketch the mechanistic pathway for this reduction process unravelling the dual role of the catalyst involving nucleophilic activation by aNHC along with Lewis acidic activation by K ions.
