Facile nucleophilic fluorination by synergistic effect between polymer-supported ionic liquid catalyst and tert-alcohol reaction media system

Dong Wook Kim, Hwan Jeong Jeong, Seok Tae Lim, Myung Hee Sohn, Dae Yoon Chi

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Abstract

A highly efficient method was developed for nucleophilic fluorination using an alkali metal fluoride through the synergistic effect of the polymer-supported ionic liquid (PSIL) as a catalyst and tert-alcohol as an alternative reaction media. This PSIL/tert-alcohol system not only enhances the reactivity of alkali metal fluorides and reduces the formation of by-products but also allows the use of a polymer-supported catalyst protocol. As an example, the nucleophilic fluorinations of the model compound, 2-(3-bromopropoxy)naphthalene, with CsF using only tert-amyl alcohol as solvent (for 2 h reaction time), 0.5 equiv of PS[hmim][BF4] in CH3CN (for 12 h reaction time), and 0.5 equiv of PS[hmim][BF4] in tert-amyl alcohol (which is a PSIL/tert-alcohol system for the synergistic effect; for 2 h reaction time) provided 18, 40, and 84% yield, respectively. The characteristics of the nucleophilic fluorination reactions of some halo- and alkanesulfonyloxyalkane systems to the corresponding fluoroalkanes using various alkali metal fluorides are also reported.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)4209-4214
Number of pages6
JournalTetrahedron
Volume64
Issue number19
DOIs
StatePublished - 5 May 2008
Externally publishedYes

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Funding Information:
This work was supported by the fund of Chonbuk National University Hospital Research Institute of Clinical Medicine (to D.W.K.), grant from the Atomic Energy Technology and Development Program of KOSEF (2008-00285 to D.W.K), and KOSEF grant funded by the Korea government (MOST, 2006-03770 to D.Y.C.).

Keywords

  • Alkali metal fluoride
  • Fluorination
  • Ionic liquid
  • Nucleophilic substitution
  • Polymer-supported ionic liquid
  • tert-Alcohol

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