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Selenium-Catalyzed Oxidative Carbonylation of Aniline and Alcohols to N-Phenylcarbamates

X Zhang, H Jing, G Zhang

Index: Zhang, Xiaopeng; Jing, Huanzhi; Zhang, Guisheng Synthetic Communications, 2010 , vol. 40, # 11 p. 1614 - 1624

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Abstract

A facile one-pot, phosgene-free synthesis of N-phenylcarbamates is demonstrated. Catalyzed by selenium, oxidative carbonylation of aniline with alcohols in the presence of carbon monoxide and oxygen affords the corresponding N-phenylcarbamates, mostly in fair to good yields. Selenium can be easily recovered because of its phase-transfer catalysis function.