By catalyst and condition screening, a simple Cu(I)/TEMPO-catalyst system was found to be an active and highly effective catalyst for the aerobic oxidation of amines to imines in open air at room temperature under neat conditions. This new method provided a mild, efficient, and practical alternative for the synthesis of the useful imines directly from primary and secondary amines.
A practical, efficient and environmentally benign catalytic protocol for the oxidative cross-coupling reaction of halides with amines, oxidative self-coupling of amines and oxidation of halides was developed with inorganic-ligand supported ZnPOM (NH4)4[ZnMo6O18(OH)6] using molecular oxygen. This method mainly utilizes an inorganic polymolybdate ligand to support the Zn2+ ion, avoiding the use of complicated
利用无机配体负载的ZnPOM(NH 4)4 [ZnMo 6 O 18( OH)6 ]使用分子氧。该方法主要利用无机多钼酸盐配体来支撑Zn 2+离子,避免了使用复杂的有机配体。
Convenient and clean synthesis of imines from primary benzylamines
作者:Guobiao Chu、Chunbao Li
DOI:10.1039/c0ob00043d
日期:——
The current syntheses of imines from benzylamines are often performed in organic solvents or under harsh reaction conditions. Clean oxidation of primary benzylamines to imines has been successfully achieved using H2O2 in water at room temperature catalyzed by V2O5. Among the 10 imine products, 5 of them precipitated from the reaction and led pure products after simple filtration. No organic solvents are needed in the whole process. The yields are good to quantitative. This represents an efficient and green procedure of the synthesis of imines. A similar green oxidation of benzylamines to aromatic aldehydes is also reported. A benzylic anion-involved mechanism is proposed based on the experiments.
Abundant and cheap iron readily catalyzed the aerobic oxidativereactions of primary amines, secondary amines, benzylamines with anilines, and alcohols with amines by directly usingair as the economic and safe oxidant, providing several direct, practical, and greener approaches for the preparation of useful imines.
An oxygenation pathway: The title transformation involves a two‐step process: a selective oxygenation step to generate aldehyde intermediates and a subsequent condensation step to afford the imine products (see scheme).