These compound has a wide range of applications. It is believed that with the continuous development of the source of the synthetic route Pivalonitrile, its application will become more common.
Related Products of 630-18-2,Some common heterocyclic compound, 630-18-2, name is Pivalonitrile, molecular formula is C5H9N, traditional synthetic route has been very mature, but the traditional synthetic route has various shortcomings, such as complicated route, low yield, poor purity, etc, below Introduce a new synthetic route.
The catalytic activity of 5 mol % [RuCl2(PTA)4] toward nitrile hydration was evaluated in aqueous solution at 100 C. with 1 mmol nitrile in a culture tube under air (Scheme 2). Under the conditions described here, RuCl3 (5 mol %) provided a 54% conversion of benzonitrile to benzamide in 24 hours. Benzonitrile hydration by 2 mol % RuCl3 was previously reported to yield 28% benzamide after 3 h at 130 C. No hydration was observed in the absence of a catalyst, or with PTA, [RuCl2(eta6-toluene)]2, or [RuCl2(PPh3)3] as catalysts. Benzonitrile hydration by [RuCl2(PTA)4] did not occur at 50 C. and provided only 23% conversion after 24 h at 75 C. The hydration of benzonitrile catalyzed by [RuCl2(PTA)4] showed a >99% conversion to benzamide at 100 C. after 7 hours, in contrast to the inactive [RuCl2(PPh3)3], potentially demonstrating a cooperative effect of the nitrogen-containing PTA versus PPh3. For comparison, nitrile hydration catalyzed by 5 mol % [RuCl2(eta6-arene)(PTA)] (eta6-arene=benzene, p-cymene, 1,3,5-trimethylbenzene, and hexamethylbenzene), showed >98% conversions in 4-9 h for aqueous benzonitrile hydration under N2 at 100 C. An in situ generated catalyst formed by the addition of RuCl3 hydrate with 6 equivalence of PTA provided results similar to the preformed complex RuCl2PTA4 (Table 1).The conversion of various nitriles (1a-1n) to the corresponding amides (2a-2n) was explored with results summarized in Table 1. All nitriles were efficiently converted to amides with 67-99% conversion in 7 hours and >99% conversions by 24 hours, with the exception of 2-cyanopyridine (1j, 81% after 24 h). After completion, the reaction was cooled to 0 C. and, in most cases, the product amides crystallized out as white needles and were easily isolated in 67-81% yield by decantation. Identity of the isolated amides (2a-2n) was confirmed by GC-MS and NMR spectroscopy. Substituted benzonitriles bearing electron-withdrawing groups (Table 1 above, entries 1g-1i) exhibited slightly more efficient conversions to amides than those with electron-donating groups (entries 1b-1f). Presumably, the presence of the electron-withdrawing group makes the nitrile carbon more susceptible to nucleophilic attack by an activated water molecule. As previously reported for ortho-substituted benzonitriles, o-tolunitrile exhibited lower conversion relative to m- and p-tolunitriles (Table 1, entries 1b-1d), which is attributed to steric hindrance of the o-tolunitriles. Hydration of 4-cyanobenzaldehyde led to 4-formylbenzamide in a 99% conversion in 7 h with an intact formyl moiety (entry 1i). The coordinating ability of the pyridyl functionality reduced catalytic activity as hydration of 2-cyanopyridine to picolinamide resulted in only 81% conversion after 24 h (entry 1j).[RuCl2(PTA)4] was also effective as a hydration catalyst for the less reactive aliphatic nitriles (Table 1, entries 1k-1m). 4-Methylbenzyl cyanide was transformed with 99% conversion in 7 hours (entry 1k) into the amide. Hydration of the sterically bulky pivalonitrile (1m) to pivalamide proceeded with a 99% conversion in 24 h although a modest conversion of 67% was observed after 7 h (entry 1m). The resistance of tertiary nitriles toward hydrolysis has been noted. The industrially important acrylonitrile was almost quantitatively converted into acrylamide in 7 hours without observation of polymerization or hydrolysis byproducts (Table 1, entry 1n). For all the nitrile hydrations studied, the corresponding amides were the only product observed (no carboxylic acids were detected by GC-MS). Thus, the catalytic conditions described here are compatible with ether (entry 1e), hydroxyl (entry 10, nitro (entry 1g), bromo (entry 1h), formyl (entry 1i), pyridyl (entry 1j), benzyl (entry 1k), alkyl (entries 1l-1m), and olefinic (entry 1n) functional groups, which establishes a wide synthetic scope.
These compound has a wide range of applications. It is believed that with the continuous development of the source of the synthetic route Pivalonitrile, its application will become more common.
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Patent; Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education, on behalf of the University of Nevada; Frost, Brian J.; Lee, Wei-Chih; US2013/96344; (2013); A1;,
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