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Ammonium Chloride-Promoted Rapid Synthesis of Monosubstituted Ureas under Microwave Irradiation
Lan, Chunling Blue,Auclair, Karine
supporting information, p. 5135 - 5146 (2021/10/19)
Monosubstituted ureas are important scaffolds in organic chemistry. They appear in various biologically active compounds and serve as versatile precursors in synthesis. Monosubstituted ureas were originally prepared using toxic and hazardous phosgene equivalents. Modern methods include transamidation of urea and nucleophilic addition to cyanate salts, both of which suffer from a narrow substrate scope due to the need for a strong acid and prolonged reaction times. We hereby report that ammonium chloride can promote the reaction between amines and potassium cyanate to generate monosubstituted ureas in water. This method proceeds rapidly under microwave irradiation and tolerates a broad range of functional groups. Unlike previous strategies, it is compatible with other nucleophiles, acid-labile moieties, and most of the common protecting groups. The products precipitate out of solution, allowing facile isolation without column chromatography.
Reductions of aliphatic and aromatic nitriles to primary amines with diisopropylaminoborane
Haddenham, Dustin,Pasumansky, Lubov,DeSoto, Jamie,Eagon, Scott,Singaram, Bakthan
supporting information; experimental part, p. 1964 - 1970 (2009/07/01)
Diisopropylaminoborane [BH2Nf)Pr)2] in the presence of a catalytic amount of lithium borohydride (LiBH4) reduces a large variety of aliphatic and aromatic nitriles in excellent yields. BH 2NOPr)2 can be prepared by two methods: first by reacting diisopropylamineborane [(iPr)2N)BH3] with 1.1 equiv of n-butylhthium (n-BuLi) followed by methyl iodide (MeI), or reacting iPrN:BH 3 with 1 equiv of n-BuLi followed by trimethylsilyl chloride (TMSCl). BH2N(ZPr)2 prepared with MeI was found to reduce benzonitriles to the corresponding benzylamines at ambient temperatures, whereas diisopropylaminoborane prepared with TMSCl does not reduce nitriles unless a catalytic amount of a lithium ion source, such as LiBH4 or lithium tetraphenylborate (LiBPh4), is added to the reaction. The reductions of benzonitriles with one or more electron-withdrawing groups on the aromatic ring generally occur much faster with higher yields. For example, 2,4-dichlorobenzonitrile was successfully reduced to 2,4-dichlorobenzylamine in 99% yield after 5 h at 25 °C. On the other hand, benzonitriles containing electron-donating groups on the aromatic ring require refluxing in tetrahydrofuran (THF) for complete reduction. For instance, 4- methoxybenzonitrile was successfully reduced to 4-methoxybenzylamine in 80% yield. Aliphatic nitriles can also be reduced by the BH2N(iPr) 2/cat. LiBH4 reducing system. Benzyl cyanide was reduced to phenethylamine in 83% yield. BH2NOPr)2 can also reduce nitriles in the presence of unconjugated alkenes and alkynes such as the reduction of 2-hexynenitrile to hex-5-yn-l-amine in 80% yield. Unfortunately, selective reduction of a nitrile in the presence of an aldehyde is not possible as aldehydes are reduced along with the nitrile. However, selective reduction of the nitrile group at 25 °C in the presence of an ester is possible as long as the nitrile group is activated by an electron-withdrawing substituent. It should be pointed out that lithium aminoborohydrides (LABs) do not reduce nitriles under ambient conditions and behave as bases with aliphatic nitriles as well as nitriles containing acidic a-protons. Consequently, both LABs and BH2NOPr)2 are complementary to each other and offer methods for the selective reductions of multifunctional compounds.
Synthesis of active principles from the leaves of Moringa oleifera using S-pent-4-enyl thioglycosides
Leuck, Michael,Kunz, Horst
, p. 33 - 44 (2007/10/03)
α-l-Rhamnosides of 4-hydroxy-benzyl compounds with nitrile, carbamate, and thiocarbamate groups occurring in Moringa oleifera leaf extracts and the α-l-rhamnoside of anisaldehyde derivatives were synthesised. Electrophilic activation of S-pent-4-enyl thiorhamnosides was applied for the construction of glycosidic linkages. Copyright (C) 1997 Elsevier Science Ltd.
