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Zinc Powder Catalysed Formylation and Urealation of Amines Using CO2 as a C1 Building Block?

Transformation of CO2 into valuable organic compounds catalysed by cheap and biocompatible metal catalysts is one of important topics of current organic synthesis and catalysis. Herein, we report the zinc powder catalysed formylation and urealation of amines with CO2 and (EtO)3SiH under solvent free condition. Using 2 molpercent zinc powder as the catalyst, a series of secondary amines, both the aromatic ones and the aliphatic ones, can be formylated into formamides. When primary aromatic amines were used as the substrates, the reactions produce urea derivatives. The electronic and steric effects from the substrates on the formylation and urealation reactions were observed and discussed. The recovery and reusability of zinc powder were investigated, showing the zinc powder can be reused in the formylation reaction without loss of catalytic activity. The analysis on the reactants/products mixture after filtering out the zinc powder showed the zinc concentration in the mixture is low to 1 ppm. The pathways for the formylation and urealation of amines with this catalytic system were also investigated, and related to the different substrates.

Synthesis of Urea Derivatives from CO2 and Silylamines

A series of thirty-three N,N′-diaryl, dialkyl, and alkyl-aryl ureas have been prepared in pyridine or toluene by reaction of silylamines with CO2. This protocol is shown to provide facile access to 13C-labeled ureas, as well as chiral and macrocyclic ureas. These reactions proceed through initial generation of the corresponding silylcarbamates, which subsequently react with silylamine under thermal conditions to afford the thermodynamically favored urea and disilyl ether.

Palladium-mediated oxidative carbonylation reactions for the synthesis of 11C-radiolabelled ureas

Palladium(II)-mediated oxidative carbonylation reactions have been used to synthesize 11C-radiolabelled ureas via the coupling of amines with [11C]carbon monoxide, in a one-pot process. Following trapping of 11CO in a solution of copper(I) tris(3,5-dimethylpyrazolyl)borate, homocoupling reactions of primary aliphatic amines proceed in the presence of Pd(PPh3)2Cl2 to give the corresponding N,N-disubstituted [11C]ureas. Secondary amines do not produce the corresponding N,N,N,N-tetrasubsituted [11C]ureas under these conditions. This difference in reactivity allows for the formation of unsymmetrical N,N',N'-trisubstituted [11C]ureas using a mixture of a primary amine and a reactive secondary amine. The potential use of this method in positron emission tomography (PET) was demonstrated by the synthesis of the M1 muscarinic acetylcholine receptor radiotracer, [11C-carbonyl] GSK1034702.

A simple and efficient synthesis of diaryl ureas with reduction of the intermediate isocyanate by triethylamine

Thirty symmetrical diaryl urea derivatives were synthesised in moderate to excellent yields from arylamine and triphosgene with triethylamine as a reducing agent for the intermediate, isocyanate. It was significant that part of the products could be collected in almost quantitative yield without column chromatography. The procedure under mild reaction conditions was tolerant of a wide range of functional groups. The structures of the compounds were determined by NMR, MS and X-ray crystallographic analyses.

Conformation and stereodynamics of 2,2′-disubstituted N,N′-diaryl ureas

Except in the most hindered of cases, N,N′-diaryl N,N′-dimethyl ureas adopt a conformation with the two aryl rings disposed cis to one another. Variable temperature NMR studies reveal the rate at which the Ar-N bonds rotate as well as the conformational preference of ortho disubstituted ureas in which more than one cis orientation is possible. In general, a conformation in which the aryl rings lie close in space but with their most bulky 2-substituents aligned anti is preferred, but with particularly bulky 2-substituents, conformations in which one of the aryl rings points away from the other may also be populated. The Royal Society of Chemistry.