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Article history: We reported here the catalytic carbonylation of quaternary ammonium salts under anhydrous condi-
Received 26 June 2013 tion. Quaternary ammonium salts, a kind of versatile reagents that were widely used in organometallic
Received in revised form 12 October 2013 chemistry, can be carbonylated to tertiary amides by an in situ prepared NaCo(CO)4 catalyst. It was found
Accepted 20 October 2013
that the counterions (Cl , Br , I , OTf ) in the quaternary ammonium salts played a signicant role in
Available online 27 October 2013
the reaction and tetramethylammonium iodide could give high yield (96%) of N,N-dimethylacetamide
(DMAc) with only 0.5 mol% cobalt catalyst. Under optimum conditions, several other quaternary ammo-
Keywords:
nium iodides were also carbonylated to corresponding tertiary amides in moderate to excellent yields.
Carbonylation
Quaternary ammonium salt
Obviously, these results also give us a special apprehension that Me4 NI and other quaternary ammonium
Tertiary amide salts could be possibly carbonylated to tertiary amides in the carbonylation reaction where they are used
NaCo(CO)4 catalyst as promoters or solvents in most cases. Considering the high activity and moderate to excellent selectiv-
ity, this process could be a potential method for the synthesis of certain tertiary amides. Moreover, the
cleaving mechanism of C N bonds and the possible catalytic intermediates were discussed in detail.
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appropriate amount of NaCl solution was added, and then the pre-
cipitate was ltrated, dried and weighed.
Table 1
Effect of counterion and solvent.a
Entry Solventb Counterion Time (h) Conversion (mol%) Selectivity (mol%) YieldDMAc (mol%)d Acetic acid (mol%)d
1 NMP Cl 14 13.6 97.5 13.3
2 NMP Br 14 65.7 98.1 64.5
3 NMP OTf 14 55.0 97.2 53.5
4c NMP I 7 99.7 98.5 98.2
5 DMF I 7 95.6 97.2 93.0
6 Toluene I 7 65.4 98.7 64.5
7 Toluene/water (9:1) I 7 55.8 63.0 35.2 19.4
8 Toluene/water (1:1) I 7 32.1 12.7 4.1 11.0
a
Reaction conditions: NaCo(CO)4 (0.75 mmol); tetramethylammonium salt (15 mmol); solvent (50 mL); CO (3 MPa); 200 C; stirring speed, 500 rpm.
b
Toluene/water (weight ratio).
c
Yield of MeI 98.0 mol%.
d
Yield = nnx 100% (nx , the molar number of the product; n0 , the molar number of the initially added ammonium salt).
0
Table 2
Effect of catalyst and catalyst dosage.a
Entry Catalyst Substrate:catalyst molar ratio Conversion (mol%) Selectivity (mol%) Yield (mol%) TONb
and the reaction proceeded almost equally as fast with 0.5 mol% cat- gave excellent conversion with moderate selectivity. Alicyclic
alyst (Table 2, entry 5). Next experiments revealed that this in situ quaternary ammonium salts, such as N,N-dimethylpyrrolidinium
synthesis of NaCo(CO)4 showed almost the same catalytic activity iodide and N,N-dimethylpiperidinium iodide, reacted with CO
as the as-prepared NaCo(CO)4 (Table 2, entries 6 and 7). It must be to afford the corresponding amides in moderate to excellent
noted that the catalytic activity of this process is much higher than yields (Table 4, entries 2 and 3). N,N-dimethylmorpholinium
those reported for the carbonylation of trimethylamine [16,17]. iodide, as a representative example of heterocyclic quaternary
ammonium salt, resulted in 72.3% yield of N-acetylmorpholine
3.3. Effect of temperature and CO pressure (Table 4, entry 4). Aryltrimethylammonium iodide, one of the
most common substrates in cross coupling reaction [7,10], gave
Quaternary ammonium salts are widely used as phase-transfer N-methyl-N-phenyl-acetamide in 93.7% yield (Table 4, entry
catalysts, catalyst promoters and ionic liquid solvents in catalytic 5). Aryltriethylammonium iodide and benzyltrimethylammonium
carbonylation reaction [4]. However, the reactivity of quaternary iodide gave the corresponding products in 49.7% and 41.7% yield,
ammonium salts in catalytic carbonylation reactions is seldom respectively (Table 4, entries 6 and 7). These results demonstrated
documented. Alper and Caubere have reported that benzyltri- that the carbonylation of quaternary ammonium salts was a com-
ethylammonium and allyltriethylammonium halides could be mon phenomenon under these carbonylation reaction conditions.
carbonylated to corresponding acids in a C6 H6 /aqueous NaOH Obviously, it gives us a special alarm that Me4 NI and other qua-
solution [14,15]. Unfortunately, substrates in these reports were ternary ammonium salts could be possibly carbonylated to tertiary
only limited to aryl or benzyl quaternary ammonium halides amides in the carbonylation reaction where they are used as pro-
and the reactions took place under specic conditions, that is, in moters or solvents in most cases, more or less, which would be
C6 H6 /aqueous NaOH solution. To investigate the reactivity of qua- interfere the main carbonylation reaction.
ternary ammonium salts in anhydrous organic solvent, the effect of
reaction temperature and CO pressure on the carbonylation in NMP 4. Discussion
solvent was examined (in Table 3). It was found that Me4 NI could
react with CO in a very low rate at 140 C (Table 3, entry 2). With 4.1. C N bond cleavage of quaternary ammonium salts
the increase of reaction temperature from 140 C to 180 C, Me4 NI
conversion increased signicantly and a consistent selectivity of The cleavage of C N bonds to form useful N-containing ne
DMAc was preserved (Table 3, entries 24). Further increasing the chemicals is of signicant interest because such bonds are very
temperature to 200 C, much higher yield of DMAc was obtained common in organic chemistry [44,45]. However, C N bonds are
(Table 3, entry 5). The inuence of pressure on the carbonylation generally very strong and usually difcult to cleave. For the func-
of Me4 NI was presented in Table 3 (entries 58). It is obvious that tionalization of the unactivated C N bonds, the bonds are usually
there is a signicant relationship between the conversion and the activated by conversion to their salts [713]. Therefore, investiga-
CO pressure. The conversion increased notably from 12.1% to 97.4% tion about the cleaving mechanism of C N bonds in ammonium
when the pressure varied from 0.5 to 3.0 MPa. salts could be informative for such kinds of reactions. We orig-
inally assumed that C N bonds in quaternary ammonium salts
3.4. Carbonylation of quaternary ammonium iodides could be cleaved either by the thermal decomposition or by the
nucleophilic attack of [Co(CO)4 ] on the electropositive nitrogen
The results of carbonylation of several quaternary ammonium atom. However, Me4 NI and other ammonium salts were reported
iodides were given in Table 4. Ethyltrimethylammonium iodide to be thermally quite stable even at much higher temperature
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Table 3
Effect of temperature and CO pressure.a
Entry T ( C) Pressure (MPa) Conversion (mol%) Selectivity (mol%) YieldDMAc (mol%) TONb
1 120 3
2 140 3 7.2 98.8 7.1 14.2
3 160 3 27.2 98.6 26.8 53.6
4 180 3 91.8 98.9 90.8 181.6
5 200 3 97.4 98.9 96.3 192.6
6 200 2 91.7 98.4 90.2 180.4
7 200 1 56.9 98.1 55.8 111.6
8 200 0.5 12.1 98.5 11.9 23.8
a
Reaction conditions: CoCl2 (0.075 mmol); Zn (0.1 mmol); Na2 SO3 (0.075 mmol); Me4 NI (15 mmol); NMP (50 mL); reaction time, 7 h; stirring speed, 500 rpm.
b
TON (mol converted Me4 NI/mol cat.).
Table 4
Cobalt catalyzed carbonylation of quaternary ammonium iodides.a
Entry Quaternary ammonium salts Products Conversion (mol%) Selectivity (mol%) Yield (mol%)
a
Reaction conditions: CoCl2 (0.075 mmol); Zn (0.1 mmol); Na2 SO3 (0.075 mmol); quaternary ammonium salt (15 mmol); NMP (50 mL); CO (3 MPa); 200 C; reaction time,
7 h; stirring speed, 500 rpm.
b
Reaction temperature: 180 C, 12 h.
[5,6]. But considering the differences of reaction conditions, the 4.2. The acyl complex intermediates
thermal behavior of Me4 NI in the solution might be quite differ-
ent. Taking this matter into account, an amine exchange reaction Based on the results above, we assumed that the intermediates
between Me4 NI and N,N-diethylaniline was conducted (Table 5). should be the acylcobalt tetracarbonyl and acyl halide. Just like the
The results indicated that Me4 NI could be thermally decomposed mechanism of cobalt carbonyl catalyzed carbonylation of methanol
at 200 C and Me4 NI would be in equilibrium with MeI and Me3 N to acetic acid [46], acylcobalt tetracarbonyl could be generated
under the reaction conditions. However, when the exchange reac- from alkyl iodide and Co(CO)4 , and then acylcobalt tetracarbonyl
tion was conducted at 150 C, no Me3 N was detected (Table 5, entry reacted with iodide ion to produce acyl halide. The presence of
3). These results suggested that Me4 NI did not thermally decom- acetic acid as byproduct (Table 1, entries 7 and 8) could be indi-
pose at 150 C. It is concluded that the cleavage of C N bonds in the rect evidence for the existence of acyl complex intermediate [46].
catalytic carbonylation of Me4 NI below 150 C should be attributed To gain additional insight into the catalytic intermediates and to
to catalytic transformation of Me4 NI by [Co(CO)4 ] (Table 3, conrm the presence of acyl complex in this reaction, additional
entry 2). experiments about catalytic carbonylation of quaternary ammo-
nium iodide were carried out in the presence of tertiary amine
(Table 6). If the acylcobalt tetracarbonyl existed, the generated acyl
Table 5 halide should react with both the added tertiary amine as well as
Amine exchange reaction between Me4 NI and N,N-diethylaniline.a the one produced, thus resulted in different tertiary amides [47]. As
we expected, when tetramethylammonium iodide was carbony-
lated in the presence of other tertiary amines (Table 6, entries 1
Entry T ( C) Yield of Me3 N (%)b and 2), different tertiary amides bearing the same acetyl group
1 200 27.3
were obtained. Likewise, when aryltriethylammonium iodide was
2 180 6.4 mixed with trimethylamine, two kinds of tertiary amides bearing
3 150 0 the same propionyl group were obtained (Table 6, entry 3). These
a
Reaction conditions: Me4 NI (10 mmol); N,N-diethylaniline (10 mmol); NMP results in Table 6 give us a positive reply and a further evidence of
(50 mL); reaction time, 7 h; stirring speed, 500 rpm. the existence of the acyl complex.
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Table 6
Cobalt catalyzed carbonylation of quaternary ammonium iodide in the presence of tertiary amine.a
A B
1 Me4 NI (C2 H5 )3 N
(55.3) (20.7)
2 Me4 NI PhNEt2
(59.0) (12.6)
3 Me3 N
(10.6) (32.1)
a
Reaction conditions: CoCl2 (0.075 mmol); Zn (0.1 mmol); Na2 SO3 (0.075 mmol); quaternary ammonium iodide (15 mmol); tertiary amine (15 mmol); NMP (50 mL); CO
(3 MPa); 200 C; reaction time, 3 h; stirring speed, 500 rpm.
b
Yield of A: based on the amount of the added ammonium iodides; Yield of B: based on the amount of the added tertiary amine.
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