USE OF LANTHANIDE(III) IONS AS CATALYSTS FOR THE REACTIONS OF AMINES WITH NITRILES
USE OF LANTHANIDE(III) IONS AS CATALYSTS FOR THE REACTIONS OF AMINES WITH NITRILES
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DOI:
10.1021/jo00382a009
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发表时间:
1987-03-20
影响因子:
3.6
通讯作者:
MILLER, JL
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作者:
FORSBERG, JH;SPAZIANO, VT;MILLER, JL
Catalytic amounts of lanthanide (III) inflates promote reactions betweenamines and nitriles leading to a variety of products. The Ln3+ ionsactivate weakly coordinating nitriles at large amine: Ln3+ mole ratios, even in the presence of amines that form thermodynamically stable complexes with Ln3+ ions. The reactions involving primary monoamines and diamines appear to be general and provide a viable synthetic route to,'-disubstituted amidines (2) andcyclic amidines (4), respectively. Symmetrically substituted triazines (8 or 9) are observed as byproducts in some of these systems whenthe reactions are carried out by using excess nitrile. Secondary alicyclic amines or dimethylamine reacts with acetonitrile to yield pyrimidines (6) and2, 4, 6-trimethyl-s-triazine (8). Two routes to triazine have been proposed, one involving the reaction of ammonia with the nitrile and the second involving the reaction of an amidine (1 or 5) with the nitrile. The ability of Ln3+ ions toactivate nitriles under conditions that oppose nitrile coordination is attributed to the lability of Ln3+ complexesderived from N-donors.Previously we reported that lanthanide (III) perchlorate salts catalyze reactions between unidentate cyclic sec-ondary amines and acetonitrile to give N-substituted acetamidines (5) or 4-substituted-2, 6-dimethylpyrimidines (6). 1 It is noteworthy that the latter instance represented the first example of a Ln3+ ion catalyzed reaction resulting in the formation of a carbon-carbon bond. Catalytic ac-tivity of the Ln3+ ions in these systems was quite sur-prising, since acetonitrile is commonly used as a solvent to prepare N-donor complexes of the lanthanides. 2 Al-though coordination of a nitrile to transition metal ions or other Lewisacids has been shown to promote reactions with amines leading to amidines, 3 formation of heterocyclic compounds analogous to those we have obtained using Ln3+ catalysts has not been reported. Furthermore, we have found that Ln3+ ions effectively activate nitrile molecules at levels of 1 mol% relative to the organic reagents, whereas reactions with transition metal ions are carried out by using a stoichiometric amount of catalyst. 4