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Esters as acylating reagent in a Friedel-Crafts reaction: Indium tribromide catalyzed acylation of arenes using dimethylchlorosilane
Nishimoto, Yoshihiro,Babu, Srinivasarao Arulananda,Yasuda, Makoto,Baba, Akio
supporting information; experimental part, p. 9465 - 9468 (2009/04/06)
(Chemical Equation Presented) The Friedel-Crafts acylation of arenes with esters by dimethylchlorosilane and 10 mol % of indium tribromide has been achieved. The key intermediate RCOOSi(Cl)Me2 is generated from alkoxy esters with the evolution of the corresponding alkanes. The scope of the alkoxy ester moiety was wide: tert-butyl, benzyl, allyl, and isopropyl esters were successful. In addition, we demonstrated the direct synthesis of the indanone intermediate 11 of salviasperanol from ester 10.
Friedel-Crafts acylation reaction using carboxylic acids as acylating agents
Kawamura, Masato,Cui, Dong-Mei,Shimada, Shigeru
, p. 9201 - 9209 (2007/10/03)
Dehydrative Friedel-Crafts acylation reaction of aromatic compounds with carboxylic acids as acylating agents was investigated in the presence of Lewis acid- or Br?nsted acid-catalyst. Various metal triflates and bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)amides showed catalytic activity at high temperature, among which Eu(NTf2)3 proved to be the most effective and efficiently catalyzed the acylation reaction of alkyl- and alkoxybenzenes with aliphatic and aromatic carboxylic acids at 250 °C. Bi(NTf2)3 was more effective than Eu(NTf2)3 at lower temperature, but proved to be hydrolyzed in the presence of a small amount of water to give HNTf2 and [Bi6O4(OH)4(H2O)6](NTf2)6. The structure of the latter compound was confirmed by a single crystal X-ray analysis. Among five Br?nsted acids, HOTf, HNTf2, HCTf3, TsOH, and Nafion SAC-13, HNTf2 has proved to be the most efficient catalyst and more effective than Eu(NTf2)3 for the acylation of p-xylene with heptanoic acid at 220 °C or lower temperature. HNTf2 catalyzed the acylation of anisole with carboxylic acids in high yields in refluxing toluene with azeotropic removal of water.
