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Title

Hydrogen‐Bonding Catalyzed Ring‐Closing C−O/C−O Metathesis of Aliphatic Ethers over Ionic Liquid under Metal‐Free Conditions.

Authors

Wang, Huan; Zhao, Yanfei; Zhang, Fengtao; Wu, Yunyan; Li, Ruipeng; Xiang, Junfeng; Wang, Zhenpeng; Han, Buxing; Liu, Zhimin

Abstract

O‐heterocycles have wide applications, and their efficient and green synthesis is very interesting. Herein, we report hydrogen‐bonding catalyzed ring‐closing metathesis of aliphatic ethers to O‐heterocycles over ionic liquid (IL) catalyst under metal‐ and solvent‐free conditions. The IL 1‐butylsulfonate‐3‐methylimidazolium trifluoromethanesulfonate ([SO3H‐BMIm][OTf]) is discovered to show outstanding performance, better than the reported catalysts. An interface effect plays an important role in mediating the reaction rate due to the immiscibility between the products and the IL catalyst, and the products can be spontaneously separated. NMR analysis and DFT calculation suggest that a pair of cation and anion of [SO3H‐BMIm][OTf] could form three strong H‐bonds with an ether molecule, which catalyze the ether transformation via a cyclic oxonium intermediate. A series of O‐heterocycles including tetrahydrofurans, tetrahydropyrans, morpholines and dioxane can be obtained from their corresponding ethers in excellent yields (e.g. >99 %). This work opens an efficient and metal‐free way to produce O‐heterocycles from aliphatic ethers.

Subjects

IONIC liquids; ETHER synthesis; HYDROGEN bonding; CATALYSTS; DIOXANE; TETRAHYDROPYRANYL compounds; IMMISCIBILITY

Publication

Angewandte Chemie, 2020, Vol 132, Issue 29, p11948

ISSN

0044-8249

Publication type

Academic Journal

DOI

10.1002/ange.202004002

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