555-03-3Relevant articles and documents
Selective Mild Oxidation of Anilines into Nitroarenes by Catalytic Activation of Mesoporous Frameworks Linked with Gold-Loaded Mn3O4 Nanoparticles
Armatas, Gerasimos S.,Daikopoulou, Vassiliki,Koutsouroubi, Eirini D.,Lykakis, Ioannis N.,Skliri, Euaggelia
, (2021/11/01)
This work reports the synthesis and catalytic application of mesoporous Au-loaded Mn3O4 nanoparticle assemblies (MNAs) with different Au contents, i. e., 0.2, 0.5 and 1 wt %, towards the selective oxidation of anilines into the corresponding nitroarenes. Among common oxidants, as well as several supported gold nanoparticle platforms, Au/Mn3O4 MNAs containing 0.5 wt % Au with an average particle size of 3–4 nm show the best catalytic performance in the presence of tert-butyl hydroperoxide (TBHP) as a mild oxidant. In all cases, the corresponding nitroarenes were isolated in high to excellent yields (85–97 %) and selectivity (>98 %) from acetonitrile or greener solvents, such as ethyl acetate, after simple flash chromatography purification. The 0.5 % Au/Mn3O4 catalyst can be isolated and reused four times without a significant loss of its activity and can be applied successfully to a lab-scale reaction of p-toluidine (1 mmol) leading to the p-nitrotulene in 83 % yield. The presence of AuNPs on the Mn3O4 surface enhances the catalytic activity for the formation of the desired nitroarene. A reasonable mechanism was proposed including the plausible formation of two intermediates, the corresponding N-aryl hydroxylamine and the nitrosoarene.
Low-temperature and highly efficient liquid-phase catalytic nitration of chlorobenzene with NO2: Remarkably improving the para-selectivity in O2-Ac2O-Hβ composite system
Deng, Renjie,Liu, Pingle,Luo, He'an,Ni, Wenjin,You, Kuiyi,Zhao, Fangfang
, (2020/02/26)
In this work, we developed a low-temperature and efficient approach for the highly selective preparation of valuable p-nitrochlorobenzene from the liquid-phase catalytic nitration of chlorobenzene with NO2 in O2-Ac2O-Hβ composite system. The results demonstrated that the introduction of molecular oxygen remarkably enhanced the chlorobenzene conversion and the cooperation catalysis of Hβ zeolite and Ac2O envidently improved the selectivity to para-nitro product. Under the optimized reaction conditions, 93.6 % of the selectivity to p-nitrochlorobenzene with 84.0 % of chlorobenzene conversion was obtained, and the ratio of p-nitrochlorobenzene to o-nitrochlorobenzene could reach up to 20.3. Furthermore, the selectivity distribution of nitration products was reasonably explained by the density functional theory (DFT) calculation. Finally, the possible nitration reaction pathway of chlorobenzene with NO2 was suggested in O2-Ac2O-Hβ composite catalytic system. The present work affords a new and mild nitration approach for highly selective preparation of valuable para-nitro products, and has potential industrial application prospects.
Direct Stereoselective β-Arylation of Enol Ethers by a Decarboxylative Heck-Type Reaction
Hachem, Mahmoud,Hoarau, Christophe,Schneider, Cédric
, (2020/04/15)
Despite remarkable advances to promote regio- and stereoselective decarboxylative arylation of inactivated olefins with benzoic acid derivatives, methodologies involving hetero-substituted alkenes are still lacking. Herein, PdII-catalyzed decarboxylative Heck coupling of α-alkoxyacrylates with (hetero)aryl carboxylic acids for the stereocontrolled production of (Z)-β-heteroarylated vinyl ethers is reported. This methodology offers a rational and step-economical route to the synthesis of attractive β-arylated α-alkoxy α,β-unsaturated carboxylates family which emerged as a relevant class of building blocks with different applications. Mechanistically, whereas electron rich benzoic acids undergo a PdII-catalyzed decarboxylation, electron-deficient substrates proceed through silver(I)-mediated decarboxylation, explaining thus the formation of stereoisomers (E) and (Z) of β-arylated vinyl ethers in presence of these latter.
