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Catalyst-Free Transamidation of Aromatic Amines with Formamide Derivatives and Tertiary Amides with Aliphatic Amines
Jiawen Yin1, Jingyu Zhang1, Changqun Cai1
1The Key Laboratory for Green Organic Synthesis and Application of Hunan Province; The Key Laboratory of Environmentally Friendly Chemistry and Application of the Ministry of Education College of Chemistry , Xiangtan University , Xiangtan 411105 , China.
Abstract:
A simple catalyst- and promoter-free protocol has been developed for the transamidation of weakly nucleophilic aromatic amines with formamide derivatives and low-reactivity tertiary amides with aliphatic amines. This strategy is advantageous because no catalyst or promoters are needed, no additives are required, separation and purification is easy, and the reaction is scalable. Significantly, this strategy was further applied to synthesize several pharmaceutical molecules on a gram scale, and excellent yields were achieved.
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