87228-44-2Relevant articles and documents
Macrolactonization Reactions Driven by a Pentafluorobenzoyl Group**
Ciofini, Ilaria,Force, Guillaume,Leb?uf, David,Mayer, Robert J.,Perfetto, Anna
supporting information, p. 19843 - 19851 (2021/08/13)
Macrolactones constitute a privileged class of natural and synthetic products with a broad range of applications in the fine chemicals and pharmaceutical industry. Despite all the progress made towards their synthesis, notably from seco-acids, a macrolactonization promoter system that is effective, selective, flexible, readily available, and, insofar as possible, compatible with manifold functional groups is still lacking. Herein, we describe a strategy that relies on the formation of a mixed anhydride incorporating a pentafluorophenyl group which, due to its high electronic activation enables a convenient access to macrolactones, macrodiolides and esters with a broad versatility. Kinetic studies and DFT computations were performed to rationalize the reactivity of the pentafluorophenyl group in macrolactonization reactions.
2,6-Dimethyl-4-nitrobenzoic anhydride (DMNBA): An effective coupling reagent for the synthesis of carboxylic esters and lactones
Shiina, Isamu,Miyao, Ryo
experimental part, p. 1313 - 1328 (2009/07/05)
Various carboxylic esters are obtained at room temperature in excellent yields with high chemoselectivities from nearly equimolar amounts of carboxylic acids and alcohols using 2,6-dimethyl-4-nitrobenzoic anhydride with triethylamine by the promotion of 4-(dimethylamino)pyridine. The efficiency of the esterification is compared to those of other dehydrations using substituted benzoic anhydrides as coupling reagents. This method was successfully applied to the synthesis of threo-aleuritic acid lactone and the desired 17-membered ring compound was prepared in high yield at room temperature from the corresponding free trihydroxycarboxylic acid using 2,6-dimethyl-4-nitrobenzoic anhydride in the presence of 4-(dimethylamino)pyridine.
Widely useful DMAP-catalyzed esterification under auxiliary base- and solvent-free conditions
Sakakura, Akira,Kawajiri, Kimio,Ohkubo, Takuro,Kosugi, Yuji,Ishihara, Kazuaki
, p. 14775 - 14779 (2008/09/17)
With regard to atom economy and E-factor, catalytic condensation of carboxylic acids with equimolar amounts of alcohols is the most desirable. Although several highly active dehydration catalysts have been reported, more efficient alternatives are still strongly needed because the dehydrative esterification of tertiary alcohols, phenols, acid-sensitive alcohols, amino acids, and hardly soluble alcohols has never proceeded satisfactorily. Here we report new insights into the classical DMAP-catalyzed acylation of alcohols: surprisingly, only a 0.05-2 mol % of DMAP can efficiently promote acylation of alcohols with acid anhydrides under auxiliary base- and solvent-free conditions to give the corresponding esters in high yields. Furthermore, we achieved the recovery and reuse of commercially available polystyrene-supported DMAP without using any solvents. These serendipitous findings provide widely useful and environmentally benign esterification methods, which might be more practical and reliable than catalytic dehydrative condensation methods, in particular, for the less reactive alcohols which hardly condense with carboxylic acid directly.
