Synlett 2012; 23(15): 2201-2204
DOI: 10.1055/s-0032-1316993
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© Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart · New York

Titanium(IV) Isopropoxide as an Efficient Catalyst for Direct Amidation of Nonactivated Carboxylic Acids

Helena Lundberg
Department of Organic Chemistry, Arrhenius Laboratory, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden, Fax: +46(8)154908   Email: hansa@organ.su.se
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Fredrik Tinnis
Department of Organic Chemistry, Arrhenius Laboratory, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden, Fax: +46(8)154908   Email: hansa@organ.su.se
,
Hans Adolfsson*
Department of Organic Chemistry, Arrhenius Laboratory, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden, Fax: +46(8)154908   Email: hansa@organ.su.se
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Publication History

Received: 25 May 2012

Accepted after revision: 03 July 2012

Publication Date:
17 August 2012 (online)


Abstract

Secondary and tertiary amides are formed in high yields, in an efficient and environmentally benign titanium(IV) isoprop­oxide catalyzed direct amidation of carboxylic acids with primary and secondary amines.

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