Dialkylaluminium 2-imidazolylphenolates: Synthesis, characterization and ring-opening polymerization behavior towards lactides
摘要:
The stoichiometric reaction of the 2-imidazolylphenols (L1-L9) with the trialkylaluminium reagents AlR3 (R = Me, Et and iBu), afforded the corresponding dialkylaluminium 2-imidazolylphenolate complexes [R2Al(L1-L9)] (C1-C11), which were characterized by H-1/C-13 NMR spectroscopy and by elemental analysis. The molecular structures of the representative complexes C1, C2, C4, C6 and C11 were determined by single-crystal X-Ray diffraction, and revealed a distorted tetrahedral geometry at aluminum. These dialkylaluminium 2-imidazolylphenolates (C1-C11) could efficiently catalyze the ring-opening polymerization of lactides to afford high molecular weight polylactide, both in the presence and absence of BnOH, and as such represent rare examples of the use of bi-dentate ligation at aluminum in such lactide polymerization systems. On the basis of the polymerization results for L-lactide, D-lactide and rac-lactide, the nature of the ligands and the aluminum bound alkyls were found to significantly affect the catalytic activity as well as the properties of the resultant polylactides. (C) 2013 Elsevier B. V. All rights reserved.
A simple highly versatile and efficient synthesis of 2,4,5-trisubstituted imidazoles is achieved by three-component cyclocondensation of 1,2-dicarbonyl compound, aldehyde and ammonium acetate using l-proline as a catalyst in methanol at moderate temperature. To explore the utility of this method 1,2,4,5-tetrasubstitutedimidazoles were also synthesized. The key advantages of this process are high yields