水相中一些有机合成反应的研究进展

水作为有机合成反应的介质具有价廉、安全、无污染、产物易于分离等优点. 综述了近年来水介质中一些有机合成反应的研究进展, 这些反应包括氧化、还原、烯丙基化、环加成、克来森、迈克尔、维悌希、缩合、偶联、自由基、有机光化学、取代等.     

Reactions in Water – A Greener Approach Using Ruthenium Catalysts

Reactions using transition metals as catalysts have emerged as an efficient method in the recent times. However, the selection of solvent plays a crucial role in this regard. Several solvents used traditionally suffer majorly with problems of toxicity; high boiling point etc. leading to drastic reaction conditions. Water being a non‐toxic, non‐inflammable and environmentally benign can replace the hazardous organic solvents in laboratory as well as industry. Maintaining a minimum catalyst loading percentage we can advantageously avail high levels of selectivity. Water was found to be a good solvent medium for several metal catalysed reactions. An intramolecular deprotonation mechanism is followed by the ruthenium (II) catalysts in water; thereby, facilitating the catalytic action of the metal. These studies can help the industrial chemists to utilize water as a solvent for their reactions towards improvement of their waste management procedure. This review mainly focuses on the several recent developments in the above direction.     

Recent advances in water-mediated multiphase catalysis

Water is the most sustainable solvent, making it the obvious choice to replace organic solvents in various synthesis techniques. However, its applications in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries are often restricted by the low solubility of organic compounds in water. Essentially, the reactions of organic compounds in water are multiphase systems. Therefore, this review classifies aqueous-phase organic reactions into liquid–liquid, liquid–solid and gas–liquid–solid phase from the perspective of phase interfaces of multiphase reactions, and summarizes the research progress and breakthroughs in recent years, including the application of micellar catalysis, Pickering emulsion catalysis, micro-nanobubble/foam catalysis and “dry water” catalysis, as well as the unique advantages of using water as a medium. Finally, we point out the current challenges and future perspectives on multiphase catalysis in aqueous-phase reactions.     

4‐Methyltetrahydropyran (4‐MeTHP): Application as an Organic Reaction Solvent

4‐Methyltetrahydropyran (4‐MeTHP) is a hydrophobic cyclic ether with potential for industrial applications. We herein report, for the first time, a comprehensive study on the performance of 4‐MeTHP as an organic reaction solvent. Its broad application to organic reactions includes radical, Grignard, Wittig, organometallic, halogen‐metal exchange, reduction, oxidation, epoxidation, amidation, esterification, metathesis, and other miscellaneous organic reactions. This breadth suggests 4‐MeTHP can serve as a substitute for conventional ethers and harmful halogenated solvents. However, 4‐MeTHP was found incompatible with strong Lewis acids, and the C?O bond was readily cleaved by treatment with BBr₃. Moreover, the radical‐based degradation pathways of 4‐MeTHP, THP and 2‐MeTHF were elucidated on the basis of GC‐MS analyses. The data reported herein is anticipated to be useful for a broad range of synthetic chemists, especially industrial process chemists, when selecting the reaction solvent with green chemistry perspectives.     

N-(p-dodecylphenylsulfonyl)-2-pyrrolidinecarboxamide: a practical proline mimetic for facilitating enantioselective aldol reactions

A highly practical and readily available proline surrogate has been developed with improved solubility properties in common, nonpolar organic solvents. This sulfonamide-based catalyst has proven highly effective at facilitating enantioselective and diastereoselective aldol reactions with a range of substrates in nonpolar organic solvents in the presence of a single equivalent of water. Additionally, catalyst loading as low as 2 mol % can be employed in the absence of any organic solvent with continued high levels of selectivity.     

Understanding organic reactions in water: from hydrophobic encounters to surfactant aggregates

A crucial factor in realising a green chemical process in solution involves the choice of a safe, non-toxic and cheap solvent. Water is the obvious choice. Despite solubility problems, considerable interest has developed recently in organic chemistry in water. This interest also results from the fact that association and chemical reactions often benefit noticeably from the special properties of water, resulting mainly from its small molecular size, its three-dimensional hydrogen-bond network and hydrophobic interactions which are so unique for liquid water. Here we discuss organic reactions and assembly processes in water, largely taken from experiments performed in the authors' laboratories. We show that non-covalent interactions in water can be utilised for fine tuning organic reactions in aqueous media.     

Fast, easy, clean chemistry by using water as a solvent and microwave heating: the Suzuki coupling as an illustration

Water is an excellent solvent for organic chemistry and microwave heating offers a very efficient way of heating reaction mixtures. In this article, by focusing on the Suzuki reaction, it is shown how these two methods, used alone or together, can impact modern synthetic chemistry, making reactions faster, easier and cleaner.     

酶催化反应研究进展

简要评述了近年来酶催化反应的进展,以及近年来5种不同反应体系(有机溶剂体系、反胶束体系、低共熔体系、超临界流体体系和气相体系)中酶催化反应的进展,并对不同体系中酶促反应的主要影响因素、酶催化底物的拓宽和模拟酶研究及酶催化的手性合成等作了简要概述。参考文献52篇。     

Wasser als Lösungsmittel: Koordinationskatalyse

Water is a favoured solvent in inorganic-analytical reactions and also in biocatalysis. With the development of the homogeneous coordination catalysis and its transfer into multiphase systems water became interesting as polar phase. Prerequisite was the synthesis of water-soluble catalytically active complexes which can be recycled by simple phase separation. Some advantages with respect to activity and selectivity could be observed for aqueous organic syntheses. Moreover, water gives the possibility for supramolecular aggregations of amphiphilic molecules and is a good medium for supported catalysts. Supercritical water shows a rather different behaviour as solvent and as reactant. An advantage of water in industrial application is the easy accessibility and also the environmental conservation.     

Enantioselective reduction and deracemisation using the non-conventional yeast Pichia glucozyma in water/organic solvent biphasic systems: preparation of (S)-1,2-diaryl-2-hydroxyethanones (benzoins)

Water/organic solvent two-liquid-phase systems have been successfully applied in the synthesis of enantiomerically pure (S)-benzoin through two different methodologies catalysed by whole cells from the non-conventional yeast Pichia glucozyma: the stereoselective monoreduction of benzil and the deracemisation of benzoin. The presence of the organic solvent influences the redox systems implied in the reactions, avoiding the formation of the corresponding diols, increasing the enantioselectivity and allowing the easy isolation of the products in high yields and excellent enantiomeric excesses. The use of both strategies has been extended to the preparation of different chiral benzoin derivatives.     

A Novel Sensing System for Water in Organic Solvent Based on the ICT Dual Fluorescence of n-Dodecyl 4-Dimethylaminobenzoate

Water Content in organic solvent is one of the important quantity parameters for the solvent, in particular for those solvents for organometallic use. Thus a feasible method for monitoring water content in organic solvent would be of practical importance.     

Organometall‐Reaktionen in Wasser

Water has attracted significant attention as an alternative solvent for organometallic reactions because it is nontoxic, nonflammable, and inexpensive, and is easily separated from organic products. Organometallic reactions, like the palladium‐catalyzed couplings of organic halides with organoboron compounds (Suzuki) and organotin reagents (Stille), are among the most widely used reactions for the formation of carbon‐carbon bonds. Owing to the discovery of water‐soluble, sulfonated phosphane derivatives and particularly the design of water‐soluble palladium‐catalysts it was possible to import these reactions into aqueous media. Another efficient, metal‐catalyzed, carbon‐carbon bond‐forming process that is nowadays possible in aqueous media is the olefin metathesis. The approaches so far include the use of water‐soluble ruthenium‐catalysts, surfactants and additives, ultrasonication, the introduction of polar quaternary ammonium groups or the incorporation of PEG as a water solubilizing moiety. The last point bears also a great potential for further developments in the removal of ruthenium‐containing byproducts. Additionally, water is the ideal reaction environment for polar, water soluble substrates such as natural product or pharmaceuticals.     

深共熔溶剂在有机反应中的应用

深共熔溶剂(DES)作为一种低共熔混合物,由于具有廉价易得、蒸汽压低、无毒性、不易燃、可生物降解、可调控以及易循环使用等优点,逐渐成为一种新型的绿色溶剂或催化剂。本文介绍了DES的组成、分类,重点综述了DES作为溶剂或催化剂应用于常见的加成、取代、偶联、缩合、环化、酯化、多组分及解聚等有机反应。最后展望了DES在有机反应中的发展前景。     

Ligand‐free,copper‐catalyzed,one‐pot,three‐component synthesis of novel 1,2,3‐triazole‐linked indoles in magnetized water

Magnetized water (MW) is used as a green and new solvent‐promoting medium for the one‐pot, three‐component synthesis of novel 1,2,3‐triazole‐linked indoles catalyzed by copper iodide. A broad range of 2‐aryl‐1‐(prop‐2‐ynyl)‐1H‐indole‐3‐carbaldehydes were reacted with alkyl halides and sodium azide via copper‐catalyzed azide–alkyne cycloaddition reactions in MW in the absence of any ligand. This method offers the advantages of short reaction times, green procedure, low cost, simple work‐up, quantitative reaction yields, and no need for any organic solvent.     

Selective hydroxyl group determination by direct titration with lithium aluminum amide

The selective determination of hydroxyl groups in most complex alcohol systems by direct titration with standard lithium aluminum amide solution is described. The titration is carried out in ether solvent under nitrogen with N-phenyl-p-aminoazobenzene as reversible indicator. The accuracy is better than ± 1 % ; less than 6 min are required for a complete determination of alcohols up to triacontanol. Aldehydes, ketones, esters, amines and alkoxy groups do not interfere, but organic and inorganic acids, and water and molecular oxygen, interfere. Water and acid interferences can be corrected for after a Karl Fischer titration and neutralization reactions respectively.     

有机溶剂化效应对多元配合物显色反应作用的研究 Ⅰ.有机溶剂对 M-CAS-CTMAB 体系显色反应微环境影响之初探

本文研究了有机溶剂加入后,表面活性剂增敏型体系微环境的变化。用核磁共振方法确定了有机溶剂分子与CTMAB胶束分子的作用部位。通过CTMAB溶液电导率测定及c.m.c值的测定,发现有机溶剂加入确实形成了一种新胶束。还研究了有机溶剂对显色反应速度的影响。并考察了体系微环境变化与相应显色液吸光度值的关系。我们的实验初步表明,有机溶剂的存在,改变了原有的CTMAB胶束,是增敏作用的重要因素,因而改变了发生显色反应的微环境。     

Promiscuous acylase-catalyzed aza-Michael additions of aromatic N-heterocycles in organic solvent

A novel and efficient enzymatic promiscuous protocol for aza-Michael addition of aromatic N-heterocycles to α,β-unsaturated compounds has been described. The reactions were catalyzed by promiscuous zinc-active-site acylase in organic solvent at 50 °C. The strategy works with a broad range of N-heterocycles to afford the corresponding Michael adduct with good yields in several hours (0.5-6 h). This catalytic promiscuity is the first example of metal-active-site enzyme-catalyzed aza-Michael addition for aromatic N-heterocycles.     

Selectivity in reversed-phase separations: general influence of solvent type and mobile phase pH

The influence of the mobile phase on retention is studied in this paper for a group of over 70 compounds with a broad range of multiple functional groups. We varied the pH of the mobile phase (pH 3, 7, and 10) and the organic modifier (methanol, acetonitrile (ACN), and tetrahydrofuran (THF)), using 15 different stationary phases. In this paper, we describe the overall retention and selectivity changes observed with these variables. We focus on the primary effects of solvent choice and pH. For example, transfer rules for solvent composition resulting in equivalent retention depend on the packing as well as on the type of analyte. Based on the retention patterns, one can calculate selectivity difference values for different variables. The selectivity difference is a measure of the importance of the different variables involved in method development. Selectivity changes specific to the type of analyte are described. The largest selectivity differences are obtained with pH changes.     

Photoinduced Proton‐Transfer Reactions for Mild O‐H Functionalization of Unreactive Alcohols

Hexafluoroisopropanol is typically considered as an unreactive solvent and not as a reagent in organic synthesis. Herein, we report on a mild and efficient photochemical reaction of aryl diazoacetates with hexafluoroisopropanol that enables, under stoichiometric reaction conditions, the synthesis of fluorinated ethers in excellent yield. Mechanistic studies indicate there is a preorganization of hexafluoroisopropanol and the diazoalkane acts as an unreactive hydrogen‐bonding complex. Only after photoexcitation does this complex undergo a protonation‐substitution reaction to the reaction product. Investigations on the applicability of this photochemical transformation show that a broad variety of acidic alcohols can be subjected to this transformation and thus demonstrate the feasibility of this concept for O‐H functionalization reactions (54 examples, up to 98 % yield).     

液态聚乙二醇作为绿色反应介质在有机反应中的应用

低分子量的液态聚乙二醇（PEG）作为一种新型的绿色有机反应溶剂正受到人们的极大关注。PEG具有好的热稳定性、不挥发、不易燃、无毒、生物可降解、廉价易得,以及易于回收和循环使用。此外,PEG可以溶解众多的有机化合物和有机金属配合物。因此,PEG作为有机溶剂的替代品和作为均相催化剂的载体已经成功地应用到许多有机反应中,它们包括还原反应、氢化反应、氧化反应、不对称双羟基化反应、Heck反应、Suzuki交叉偶联反应、Michael加成反应、不对称Aldol反应、Baylis-Hillman反应、脂肪酶催化的反应和聚合反应等。本文对这一领域的研究进展作一综述。