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Triflic Acid-Catalyzed Tandem Reactions of Cyclopropyl Alcohols with Sulfonamides for the Synthesis of Pyrrolidines

  • Zhang Xiaoxiang ,
  • Sun Xiaoping ,
  • Rao Weidong
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  • College of Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Biomass-based Green Fuels and Chemicals, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037

Received date: 2015-01-27

  Revised date: 2015-03-06

  Online published: 2015-03-17

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Project supported by the Young National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 21302096), the Young Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (No. BK20130962) and the Project Fund from the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions.

Abstract

Intermolecular tandem reactions of substituted cyclopropyl alcohols with sulfonamides for the synthesis of pyrrolidines can be catalyzed by triflic acid (TfOH). The desired pyrrolidines were provided in yields of 16%~83% with 10 mol% catalyst loadings at 100 ℃. A variety of cyclopropyl alcohols, such as the electron-withdrawing, electron-donating and bulkyl groups on aromatics, and sulfonamide with electron-withdrawing, and electron-donating substituents, could be tolerated under the optimized reaction conditions. An inexpensive and commercially available triflic acid reagent has been shown efficient for the synthesis of pyrrolidines, which is an alternative to metal-catalyzed reactions.

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Zhang Xiaoxiang , Sun Xiaoping , Rao Weidong . Triflic Acid-Catalyzed Tandem Reactions of Cyclopropyl Alcohols with Sulfonamides for the Synthesis of Pyrrolidines[J]. Chinese Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2015 , 35(7) : 1500 -1505 . DOI: 10.6023/cjoc201501036

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