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Substrate promiscuity of ortho-naphthoquinone catalyst: Catalytic aerobic amine oxidation protocols to deaminative cross-coupling and n-nitrosation

ortho-Naphthoquinone-based organocatalysts have been identified as versatile aerobic oxidation catalysts. Primary amines were readily cross-coupled with primary nitroalkanes via deaminative pathway to give nitroalkene derivatives in good to excellent yields. Secondary and tertiary amines were inert to ortho-naphthoquinone catalysts; however, secondary nitroalkanes were readily converted by ortho-naphthoquinone catalysts to the corresponding nitrite species that in situ oxidized the amines to the corresponding N-nitroso compounds. Without using harsh oxidants in a stoichiometric amount, the present catalytic aerobic oxidation protocol utilizes the substrate promiscuity feature to provide a facile access to amine oxidation products under mild reaction conditions.

Iodide-catalyzed synthesis of N-nitrosamines via C-N cleavage of nitromethane

An iodide-catalyzed process to synthesize N-nitrosamines has been developed using TBHP as the oxidant. The mild catalytic system succeeded in cleaving the carbon-nitrogen bond in nitromethane. This methodology uses commercially available, inexpensive catalysts and oxidants and has a wide substrate scope and operational simplicity.

Hydrogen bonding of 2-tetrazenes, 2. Synthesis and structural studies of hydroxyalkyl-substituted 2-tetrazenes

Five hydroxyethyl-2-tetrazenes (1 - 5) and their methyl ethers (6 - 10) have been synthesized and hydrogen bonding in these compounds has been investigated by theoretical and spectroscopic (IR, 1H NMR, 15N NMR) methods. The structure of 1,1,4,4-tetrakis(2-hydroxyethyl)-2-tetrazene (4) was determined by X-ray diffraction analysis. Several conformations with intramolecular hydrogen bonds were investigated by ab initio B3LYP as well as semiempirical SCF calculations. In all cases, conformers with OH---N hydrogen bonds with azo nitrogen atoms as acceptors (conformers A, B, C) are found as most stable. In compounds with small or flexible N1- and N4- substituents R besides the hydroxyethyl group (3, 4), hydrogen bonds forming six-membered rings, with the R groups taking syn positions at the N1-N2 and N3-N4 bonds (conformer A), are preferred over those with seven-membered rings and R taking anti positions (conformer B). Steric interaction in the other compounds (1, 2, 5) leads to destabilization of conformers A and conformers B become more stable. A special case is presented by compound 4 which has only hydroxyethyl substituents on the 2-tetrazene unit. In the most stable conformer (4C) there are two OH---O and one OH---N hydrogen bonds. By IR solution measurements intra- and intermolecular hydrogen bonds could be distinguished. Association shifts Δδ measured by 1H NMR spectroscopy, indicate that the investigated compounds exhibit comparable association properties with intermolecular association clearly prevailing. 15N NMR spectra of compounds 1 - 10 in two solvents have been measured if solubility was sufficient. The data indicate that all nitrogen atoms of 1 - 5 participate in H bonding. In the crystalline state, molecules 4 adopt a conformation without intramolecular H bonds (4D) and are associated by intermolecular OH---O hydrogen bonds that form a three-dimensional network. An untypical decomposition pattern was discovered for benzyl derivatives 5 and 10.