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Mansour Shahedi1, Pargol Tahmasebi Pour1, Zohreh Habibi1
1Department of Organic Chemistry, Shahid Beheshti University, 1983969411 Tehran, Iran.
Abstract:
Dithiocarbamates are widely recognized for their versatile applications in both agriculture as effective pesticides and medicine, where they serve as antifungal and anticancer agents. As a result, their synthesis has garnered significant attention in recent years. In this study, we present an efficient one-pot four-component approach for the synthesis of these scaffolds, utilizing aldehydes, ethyl acetoacetate, carbon disulfide (CS2), and amines. Initially, α,β-unsaturated carbonyl compounds, serving as Michael acceptors, were generated from aldehydes and ethyl acetoacetate through a decarboxylative Knoevenagel reaction under mild conditions, using lipase as a biocatalyst. These intermediates then sequentially undergo a nucleophilic addition reaction with dithiocarbamate anions, which are generated in situ by reacting CS2 with amines. This sequence successfully yields 15 derivatives of S-alkylated dithiocarbamates with high to excellent yields ranging from 69% to 96%.
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