Heterogeneously catalyzed efficient alkyne-alkyne homocoupling by supported copper hydroxide on titanium oxide.
Heterogeneously catalyzed efficient alkyne-alkyne homocoupling by supported copper hydroxide on titanium oxide.
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10.1002/chem.200901080
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2009-08
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T. Oishi;Tatsuyori Katayama;K. Yamaguchi;N. Mizuno
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T. Oishi;Tatsuyori Katayama;K. Yamaguchi;N. Mizuno
Diyne derivatives are very important class of compounds in natural product synthesis, polymer chemistry, supramolecular chemistry, and materials science because they can be converted into various structural entities.[1–4] Thus, much attention has been paid to the development of efficient procedures for the synthesis of diyne derivatives. An oxidative alkyne–alkyne homocoupling reaction is one of the most widely used procedures for the synthesis of symmetrical diyne derivatives. Stoichiometric amounts of copper salts [5] or copper salts in catalytic amounts with appropriate nitrogen bases (as solvents or ligands) and/or additives (as water scavengers) in the presence of molecular oxygen [6–15] have typically been used for the oxidative alkyne–alkyne homocoupling reactions. However, yields of aliphatic diynes were still generally low to moderate for the homocoupling reactions of aliphatic alkynes with copper-based catalysts.[5–13] Although palladium salts and complexes have been reported to be active for the oxidative homocoupling of aliphatic alkynes, these systems have the disadvantage of the use of expensive palladium catalysts and the indispensable use of bases and co-catalysts of copper salts.[16–20] As for the oxidative alkyne–alkyne homocoupling, most of the systems reported are homogeneous and have shortcomings in the difficulty in catalyst/product (s) separation and reuse of (expensive) catalysts. As far as we know, there are only a few reports for the heterogeneously catalyzed oxidative alkyne–alkyne homocoupling with molecular oxygen.[21–23] In the reported heterogeneous systems with copper-containing hydrotalcites, excess amounts of additives (at least stoichiometric amounts with respect to alkynes) such as NaOH [20] and N, N, N’, N’-tetramethylethylenediamine [22] are necessary to attain high yields, high pressure of molecular oxygen (> 20atm) is necessary,[21] and/or the scope is limited only to ethynylbenzene.[21] In some cases, large amounts of catalysts (110 mol% for copper-containing hydrotalcite system [22] and 10–30 mol% for copper-containing zeolite system [23]) are required. Therefore, the development of efficient heterogeneous systems without any additives is still challenging and could solve the above-mentioned problems.Our strategy to design efficient heterogeneous catalysts for various functional group transformations is the formation of monomerically (or at least mainly if not wholly) dispersed metal hydroxide species on appropriate supports.[24–29] The metal hydroxide species would possess both Lewis acid and Brønsted base sites, as various functional group transformations have been promoted through the “concerted activation” by Lewis acid and Brønsted base sites.[24–29] Herein, we report the efficient heterogeneously catalyzed oxidative alkyne–alkyne homocoupling by an easily prepared supported copper hydroxide on titanium oxide (Cu (OH) x/TiO2) without any additives [Eq.(1)].