TfOH catalyzed One-Pot Schmidt–Ritter reaction for the synthesis of amides through N-acylimides

Garima Singh, Ravikrishna Dada, Srinivasarao Yaragorla

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Abstract

A One-Pot tandem Schmidt–Ritter process for the synthesis of amides has been developed using the super acid as catalyst. The in situ generated aryl/aliphatic nitriles from the reaction of aldehydes and sodium azide in the presence of TfOH and AcOH (Schmidt reaction) react with suitable alcohol (Ritter reaction) to give the amides. For the first time we observed that during the Schmidt process N-acylimides were generated along with nitriles, interestingly these N-acylimides also participated in the Ritter reaction.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)4424-4427
Number of pages4
JournalTetrahedron Letters
Volume57
Issue number39
DOIs
StatePublished - 2016
Externally publishedYes

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
GS and RD thank Central University of Rajasthan for the fellowship and SY thank Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)-India for the financial support under Extramural Research Grant-No. 02(0200)/14/EMR-II .

Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Elsevier Ltd

Keywords

  • Amides
  • Multicomponent reaction
  • N-Acylimides
  • Schmidt–Ritter reaction
  • TfOH

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