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Yoshiyuki Ogasawara1, Sayaka Uchida, Kazuya Yamaguchi
1Department of Applied Chemistry, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan.
Abstract:
The tin-tungsten mixed oxide prepared by the calcination of the tin-tungsten hydroxide precursor with a Sn/W molar ratio of 2 at 800 degrees C (SnW2-800) acts as an effective and reusable solid catalyst for C-C bond-forming reactions, such as the cyclization of citronellal, the Diels-Alder reaction, and the cyanosilylation of carbonyl compounds with trimethylsilyl cyanide (TMSCN). Various kinds of structurally diverse aliphatic, aromatic, and unsaturated, heteroatom-containing substrates could be converted into the desired products in high to excellent yields. The observed catalyses for these reactions were truly heterogeneous and the recovered catalyst could be reused several times without an appreciable loss of its high catalytic performance. The Brønsted acid sites generated on the aggregated polytungstate species on SnW2-800 likely play an important role in the C-C bond-forming reactions.
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