Tunable Approach to Diverse Phenethylamines via Reduction of 5-Aryloxazolidines with Triethylsilane
Anastasia A Smorodina1, Evgeny M Buev1, Vladimir S Moshkin1
1Institute of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Ural Federal University, 620000 Ekaterinburg, Russian Federation.
Abstract:
A rapid pathway for the synthesis of various β-phenethylamines from aromatic aldehydes has been developed. Initially, a wide range of 5-aryloxazolidines was prepared via the [3 + 2] cycloaddition reaction of N-methylazomethine ylide derived from sarcosine and paraformaldehyde. The subsequent reduction of 5-aryloxazolidines with triethylsilane in trifluoroacetic acid yields three types of products: N,N-dimethylphenylethanolamines, N,N-dimethylphenethylamines, and tetrahydroisoquinolines, depending on the substituents in the aromatic ring and reaction conditions. Moreover, an additional step of oxazolidine hydrolysis or ring-opening with hydrogen cyanide allowed us to synthesize N-methyl- or N-methyl-N-(cyanomethyl)phenethylamines.
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