ACS Catalysis

An efficient palladium-catalyzed N-alkylation of amines using primary and secondary alcohols

TT Dang, B Ramalingam, SP Shan, AM Seayad

Index: Dang, Tuan Thanh; Ramalingam, Balamurugan; Shan, Siah Pei; Seayad, Abdul Majeed ACS Catalysis, 2013 , vol. 3, # 11 p. 2536 - 2540

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Abstract

PdCl2 in the presence of dppe or Xantphos (t-Bu) as the ligand is found to be an efficient catalyst for the N-alkylation of various primary and cyclic secondary amines using primary alcohols at 90–130° C under neat conditions. Interestingly, good to excellent yields were achieved when more challenging secondary alcohols were used as alkylating agents at 130– 150° C. The reaction could be easily scaled up, as demonstrated for a 10 mmol scale ...