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Preparation of Fluorescent Materials from Biomass-Derived Furfural and Natural Amino Acid Cysteine through Cross-Coupling Reactions for Extended π-Conjugation
Tanaka, Shota,Ashida, Kana,Tatsuta, Go,Mori, Atsunori
, p. 1496 - 1500 (2015)
Preparation of 2-furylthiazole-4-carboxylic acid methyl ester is achieved in four steps from biomass-derived heteroaromatic compound furfural and a natural amino acid l-cysteine. One-pot bromination and following palladium-catalyzed arylation with arylboronates of the thus obtained furylthiazole at the furan ring gives arylated furylthiazole in excellent yields. Further arylation at the C-H bond of the thiazole ring (5-position) in the presence of AgF as an additive leads to diaarylated furylthiazoles, which show strong photoluminescence. Homocoupling at the C-H bond of thiazole is also carried out with AgF to afford the corresponding further conjugated product composed of eight (hetero)aromatic rings.
Product selectivity controlled by manganese oxide crystals in catalytic ammoxidation
Hui, Yu,Luo, Qingsong,Qin, Yucai,Song, Lijuan,Wang, Hai,Wang, Liang,Xiao, Feng-Shou
, p. 2164 - 2172 (2021/09/20)
The performances of heterogeneous catalysts can be effectively tuned by changing the catalyst structures. Here we report a controllable nitrile synthesis from alcohol ammoxidation, where the nitrile hydration side reaction could be efficiently prevented by changing the manganese oxide catalysts. α-Mn2O3 based catalysts are highly selective for nitrile synthesis, but MnO2-based catalysts including α, β, γ, and δ phases favour the amide production from tandem ammoxidation and hydration steps. Multiple structural, kinetic, and spectroscopic investigations reveal that water decomposition is hindered on α-Mn2O3, thus to switch off the nitrile hydration. In addition, the selectivity-control feature of manganese oxide catalysts is mainly related to their crystalline nature rather than oxide morphology, although the morphological issue is usually regarded as a crucial factor in many reactions.
Highly Efficient Oxidative Cyanation of Aldehydes to Nitriles over Se,S,N-tri-Doped Hierarchically Porous Carbon Nanosheets
Hua, Manli,Song, Jinliang,Huang, Xin,Liu, Huizhen,Fan, Honglei,Wang, Weitao,He, Zhenhong,Liu, Zhaotie,Han, Buxing
supporting information, p. 21479 - 21485 (2021/08/23)
Oxidative cyanation of aldehydes provides a promising strategy for the cyanide-free synthesis of organic nitriles. Design of robust and cost-effective catalysts is the key for this route. Herein, we designed a series of Se,S,N-tri-doped carbon nanosheets with a hierarchical porous structure (denoted as Se,S,N-CNs-x, x represents the pyrolysis temperature). It was found that the obtained Se,S,N-CNs-1000 was very selective and efficient for oxidative cyanation of various aldehydes including those containing other oxidizable groups into the corresponding nitriles using ammonia as the nitrogen resource below 100 °C. Detailed investigations revealed that the excellent performance of Se,S,N-CNs-1000 originated mainly from the graphitic-N species with lower electron density and synergistic effect between the Se, S, N, and C in the catalyst. Besides, the hierarchically porous structure could also promote the reaction. Notably, the unique feature of this metal-free catalyst is that it tolerated other oxidizable groups, and showed no activity on further reaction of the products, thereby resulting in high selectivity. As far as we know, this is the first work for the synthesis of nitriles via oxidative cyanation of aldehydes over heterogeneous metal-free catalysts.
