Diprotodecarboxylation Reactions of 3,4-Dialkoxythiophene-2,5-dicarboxylic Acids Mediated by Ag<sub>2</sub>CO<sub>3</sub> and Microwaves
作者:Pablo A. Cisneros-Pérez、Diego Martínez-Otero、Erick Cuevas-Yánez、Bernardo A. Uribe-Frontana
DOI:10.1080/00397911.2013.800212
日期:2014.1.17
An efficient and rapid method is reported to obtain 3,4-dialkoxythiophenes from 3,4-dialkoxythiophene-2,5-dicarboxylic acids through a diprotodecarboxylation reaction with Ag2CO3/AcOH as a catalytic system and microwave heating in dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO) as solvent. This methodology lets us obtain for the first time good performance with thiophenes bearing strong electron-donating groups such as alkoxides. This methodology eliminates the usage of harmful quinoline as solvent, as well as the long reaction times typically used (12-18h) to obtain the 3,4-dialkoxythiophenes. The reaction of 7 diacids showed good yields (60-89%) following 20min of microwave heating in a temperature range of 120-150 degrees C. [Supplementary materials are available for this article. Go to the publisher's online edition of Synthetic Communications (R) for the following free supplemental resource(s): Full experimental and spectral details.]