Cooperative Catalysis of Primary and Tertiary Amines Immobilized on Oxide Surfaces for One-Pot C-C Bond Forming Reactions
Cooperative Catalysis of Primary and Tertiary Amines Immobilized on Oxide Surfaces for One-Pot C-C Bond Forming Reactions
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DOI:
10.1002/anie.200802515
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发表时间:
2008-01-01
影响因子:
16.6
通讯作者:
Iwasawa, Yasuhiro
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作者:
Motokura, Ken;Tada, Mizuki;Iwasawa, Yasuhiro
The development of multicatalytic functions enables highly efficient organic syntheses in both homogeneous and heterogeneous catalyst systems.[1] Recently, supported catalysts with chemically designed surfaces have received much attention, not only as recoverable reagents, but also as multifunctional surface materials.[2, 3] These multifunctional catalysts can enable one-pot reaction sequences [2] and cooperatively promote single-reaction steps.[3] There are several reports of heterogeneous catalysts having multifunctional sites on their surfaces, which promote organic synthesis.[4, 5] Nevertheless, clear examples of cooperative multifunctional catalysis at surfaces for carbon–carbon bond-forming reactions are still required, to understand the synthetic strategy of efficient multifunctional catalysis at surfaces from fundamental and industrial points of view.Tertiary amines act as Lewis and Brønsted bases for the activation of nucleophiles. Conversely, supported primary amines efficiently catalyze condensation reactions of carbonyl compounds, such as nitro-aldol reactions,[6] in which the primary amines are thought to activate the carbonyl compounds through formation of imine intermediates.[4c, 6] These facts suggest that the immobilization of both tertiary and primary amines onto the same solid surface can create an efficient heterogeneous catalyst for organic CÀC bondforming reactions by activation of both nucleophiles and electrophiles. In an organized ensemble of the immobilized system, surface acid sites may also contribute to promotion of the surface reactions. Herein, we report the first example of a heterogeneous combined tertiary and primary amine catalyst, immobilized on silica–alumina (SA), with tremendous efficiency for the one-pot synthesis of 1, 3-dinitroalkanes. We examined the reaction between benzaldehyde (1) and nitromethane (2) in the presence of various heterogeneous and homogeneous amines, as shown in Table 1. In almost all cases, 2-nitrostyrene (3) was obtained as a main product. The double-amine catalysts (SA–NH2–NEt2-A–D, see Experimental Section) showed high initial conversion rates of 1 compared with other amine catalysts (Table 1, entries 1 and 2). A homogeneous solution containing a mixture of the primary and tertiary amines (n-hexylamine and triethylamine), in equivalent amounts to NH2 and NEt2 in SA–NH2–NEt2-B, was much less active than SA-supported heterogeneous catalyst (Table1, entry11). The low activity was slightly improved by the addition of SA into the solution (Table 1, entry 9). The reactions using SA–NH2 and SA–NEt2 with similar amine loadings to those in the SA–NH2–NEt2-B proceeded at very low conversion rates (Table 1, entries 7 and 8). In the case of a physical mixture of SA–NH2 and SA–NEt2,