Rapid and Convenient Microwave-Assisted Synthesis of Primary Amines via Reductive N-Alkylation of Methyl Carbamate with Aldehydes

Abstract

Microwave-assisted reductive alkylation of methyl carbamate with a range of aldehydes provides, after basic work-up, an experimentally simple, one-pot method for rapid functional group interconversion of structurally diverse aldehydes into primary amines. The method has several advantages over more traditional methods of carrying out this transformation and is particularly amenable­ to high-throughput synthesis.

Key words

aminations - aldehydes - reductive alkylation - carbamates - amines - microwave synthesis

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