67052-28-2Relevant articles and documents
Biotransformation of nitriles using the solvent-tolerant nitrile hydratase from Rhodopseudomonas palustris CGA009
Black, Gary W.,Gregson, Thomas,McPake, Christopher B.,Perry, Justin J.,Zhang, Meng
, p. 1639 - 1641 (2010)
A study has been carried out into the biocatalytic hydration of nitriles using the nitrile hydratase enzyme from Rhodopseudomonas palustris CGA009. It has been shown that this nitrile hydratase can hydrate aliphatic, aromatic and heterocyclic nitriles under very mild conditions, in mixtures of pH 7 buffer and a range of organic solvents, often with excellent chemoselectivity. The major determinant of hydration occurring is the degree of steric hindrance around the nitrile moiety and/or size of the substrates.
Phosphinous Acid-Assisted Hydration of Nitriles: Understanding the Controversial Reactivity of Osmium and Ruthenium Catalysts
González-Fernández, Rebeca,Crochet, Pascale,Cadierno, Victorio,Menéndez, M. Isabel,López, Ramón
, p. 15210 - 15221 (2017/10/12)
The synthesis and catalytic behavior of the osmium(II) complexes [OsCl2(η6-p-cymene)(PR2OH)] [R=Me (2 a), Ph (2 b), OMe (2 c), OPh (2 d)] in nitrile hydration reactions is presented. Among them, the best catalytic results were obtained with the phosphinous acid derivative [OsCl2(η6-p-cymene)(PMe2OH)] (2 a), which selectively provided the desired primary amides in excellent yields and short times at 80 °C, employing directly water as solvent, and without the assistance of any basic additive (TOF values up to 200 h?1). The process was successful with aromatic, heteroaromatic, aliphatic, and α,β-unsaturated organonitriles, and showed a high functional group tolerance. Indeed, complex 2 a represents the most active and versatile osmium-based catalyst for the hydration of nitriles reported so far in the literature. In addition, it exhibits a catalytic performance similar to that of its ruthenium analogue [RuCl2(η6-p-cymene)(PMe2OH)] (4). However, when compared to 4, the osmium complex 2 a turned out to be faster in the hydration of less-reactive aliphatic nitriles, whereas the opposite trend was generally observed with aromatic substrates. DFT calculations suggest that these differences in reactivity are mainly related to the ring strain associated with the key intermediate in the catalytic cycle, that is, a five-membered metallacyclic species generated by intramolecular addition of the hydroxyl group of the phosphinous acid ligand to the metal-coordinated nitrile.
Synthesis of primary amides by aminocarbonylation of aryl/hetero halides using non-gaseous NH3 and CO sources
Suresh,Baburajan, Poongavanam,Ahmed, Mansur
supporting information, p. 4864 - 4867 (2015/07/28)
Abstract A practically simple method for the synthesis of primary amides via the palladium-catalysed aminocarbonylation of aromatic halides by using solid sources of gaseous ammonia and carbon monoxide is described. The system tolerated a wide variety of hindered and functionalized aryl/hetero halides and afforded good to excellent yields (69-94%) of the amide. Pharmacologically active Exalamide and Pyrazinecarboxamide were synthesised in high yields to demonstrate the effectiveness of this method.
