A HYDROGEN BONDING ASSISTED CATALYST SCREENED OUT VIA COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY STRATEGY

1. INTRODUCTIONReduction of organic compounds by NaBH, is often used in organic synthesis. The reactiollis only proceeded in the interface between the organic phase and water phase because of the lowsolubility of NaBH. in organic compounds, and this results in the slow reaction rate and lowyield. In order to increase the reaction rate and yield, NaBH, was converted totetraalkylammonium borohydrides II' 'l, and this made the operating process complex and greatamount of quaternary ammon…

A HYDROGEN BONDING ASSISTED CATALYST SCREENED OUT VIA COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY STRATEGY

Possibilities for enhancement of catalytic reaction rate by combining phase transfer catalysis and hydrogen bonding of the catalyst with the substrate and reagent were studied. A phase transfer catalyst library with sixty polystyrene-supported quaternary ammonium salt catalysts was synthesized. The reduction of acetophenone by NaBH, was used as the probing reaction to select out the most active catalyst in the library by using iterative method, which was the gel-type triethanolamine aminating strongly basic anion exchange resin with the crosslinking degree of 2% A hydrogen bonding assisted catalytic mechanism was proposed to explain the high catalytic activity of the catalyst.