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Agnieszka Cwik,a Aliz Fuchs,b Zoltan Hell,*a Ildiko Bojtos,a Dora Halmaia and
Petra Bombiczc
a
Department of Organic Chemical Technology, Budapest University of Technology and
Economics, H-1521, Budapest, Hungary. E-mail: zhell@mail.bme.hu
b
Research Group for Organic Chemical Technology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, H-1521,
Budapest, Hungary
c
Institute of Structural Chemistry, Chemical Research Center, Hungarian Academy of Sciences,
H-1525, Budapest, Hungary
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DOI: 10.1039/b418848a
We investigated rst the cyclization of (2-hydroxy-propyl)carbamic acid ethyl ester 1b in the presence of different types
of HT catalysts under similar reaction conditions (Scheme 1,
Table 1). The applied species were rehydrated, calcined and nonactivated Mg : Al 3 : 1 hydrotalcites. The non-activated HT, with
carbonate as the compensating anions showed low activity. The
calcined HT gave a very poor yield. It seems that the Lewis basic
sites (O2 ), obtained by the calcination of HT are not efcient
in this reaction. For comparison purposes the known solid base
KF/aAl2 O3 has also been used. The reaction with KF/aAl2 O3
gave a very good yield, but the use of the quite toxic KF in
organic synthesis should be avoided. The results showed that
the modied HT, obtained by decarbonylation and rehydration
showed the highest activity in this reaction.
Scheme 1
Solid catalyst
Yield (%)b
1
2
3
4
Rehydrated Mg : Al HT
Calcined Mg : Al HT
Non-activated Mg : Al HT
KF/aAl2 O3
88
20
48
82
a
General conditions: carbamate 5 mmol, catalyst 0.13 g, toluene (10 ml),
110 C, 5 h. b Determined by 1 H NMR.
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Yield (%)a
a
b
H
H
83
89 (86)b
c
d
e
f
()-C2 H5
(S)-C2 H5
(R)-Ph
(S)-PhCH2
H
()CH3
H
H
H
H
95
96
91
91
145 ;
167 ; C71H71 O32 2.44 A
C61H61 O42 2.56 A
Scheme 2
Scheme 3
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General procedure for the preparation of oxazolidin-2-ones. The carbamates 1 were synthesized by alkoxycarbonylation of the corresponding
aminoalcohols with EtO2 CCl using the method reported by Wu and
Shen.5c Thus, 5 ml (50 mmol) EtO2 CCl was dropped into an ice-mixture
of 50 mmol aminoalcohol and 25 g (0.25 mol) KHCO3 in 40 ml water
under vigorous stirring. After the addition was complete, the cooling
bath was removed. The reaction mixture was stirred at rt for 1.5 h, then
it was extracted with EtOAc (4 25 ml). The combined organic phases
were washed with brine and water, dried over anhydrous magnesium
sulfate then the solvent was removed to give the pure carbamate 1.
Selected data of (2-hydroxy-propyl)-carbamic acid ethyl ester (1b): 4.12 g
(57%) white oil, 1 H NMR (300 MHz, CDCl3 ) d (ppm): 1.16 (t, J = 7.5,
3H), 1.27 (t, J = 9 Hz, 3H), 2.993.19 (m, 2H), 3.913.98 (m, 1H), 4.10
(q, J = 10.5 Hz, 2H), 5.58 (bs, 1H).
[(1R,2R)-2-Hydroxy-1-hydroxymethyl-2-(4-nitro-phenyl)-ethyl]-carbamic
acid ethyl ester (5): 7.37 g (81%) light-yellow solid, mp: 107 C, 1 H
NMR (300 MHz, CDCl3 ) d (ppm): 1.18 (t, J = 7.2 Hz, 3H), 3.543.57
(m, 1H), 3.723.75 (m, 2H), 3.833.86 (m, 2H), 3.91 (q, J = 7 Hz, 2H),
0.89 (bs, 1H), 5.08 (bs, 1H), 7.63 (d, J = 8.5 Hz, 2H), 8.18 (d, J =
8.5 Hz, 2H).
In a typical condensation reaction, hydrotalcite (0.13 g) was added to
the mixture of carbamate (5 mmol) and toluene (10 ml) under argon.
The mixture was stirred at 110 C for 5 h. Then the catalyst was ltered
out, washed with toluene and the ltrate was evaporated. The residue, if
necessary, was puried by column chromatography or recrystallized to
give the corresponding oxazolidin-2-ones. The known products were
characterized by comparing the 1 H NMR, IR spectroscopy, optical
rotations and melting points data with those reported in the literature.
The spectral and physical data of the known compounds were identical
with those reported in the literature.
Selected data of 5-methyl-oxazolidin-2-one (2b): oil, IR (neat) 3320, 1740,
1260 cm1 , 1 H NMR (500 MHz, CDCl3 ) d (ppm): 1.44 (d, J = 6 Hz,
3H), 3.20 (t, J = 7.5 Hz, 1H), 3.71 (t, J = 8 Hz, 1H), 4.774.80 (m, 1H),
6.52 (bs, 1H); 13 C NMR (75 MHz, CDCl3 ) d (ppm): 20.6, 47.0, 72.8,
159.8.
Spectral data of new compounds:
(4R,5R)-5-(4-Nitrophenyl)-4-hydroxymethyl-1,3-oxazolidin-2-one (6):
light-yellow solid, mp: 120 C, IR (KBr): 3335, 1746, 1550, 1315, cm1 ;
1
H NMR (300 MHz, methanol-d4 ) d (ppm): 3.78 (s, 2H), 4.294.31 (m,
1H), 5.6 (d, J = 4.2 Hz, 1H), 7.66 (dd, J 1 = 3 Hz, J 2 = 7.2 Hz, 2H), 8.29
(dd, J 1 = 1.8 Hz, J 2 = 8.1 Hz, 2H); 13 C NMR (75 MHz, methanol-d4 ) d
(ppm): 59.1, 67.8, 74.4, 124.5, 128.9, 149.1, 149.4, 159.5. [a]25
D = +1.46
(c = 1, MeOH). C10 H10 N2 O5 Anal. Calcd. C 50.42, H 4.2, N 11.76,
Found C 50.02, H 3.98, N 11.54%.
4R-(1R-Hydroxy-(4-nitrophenyl)-methyl)-1,3-oxazolidin-2-one (7): white
solid, mp: 175177 C, IR (KBr): 3335, 1746, 1550, 1315, cm1 ; 1 H NMR
(300 MHz, methanol-d4 ) d (ppm): 4.154.19 (m, 2H), 4.314.35 (m, 1H),
4.814.89 (m, 1H), 7.667.70 (m, 2H), 8.25 (dd, J 1 = 1.8 Hz, J 2 = 7.8 Hz,
2H); 13 C NMR (75 MHz, methanol-d4 ) d (ppm): 59.1, 63.8, 80.1, 124.5,
127.7, 148.1, 149.5, 159.8. [a]25
D = +8.25 (c = 1, MeOH). C10 H10 N2 O5
Anal. Calcd. C 50.42, H 4.2, N 11.76, Found C 50.18, H 3.96, N 11.52%.
Single crystal X-ray diffraction of compound (7). Single crystals of
(7) were grown from the mixture of toluene and acetone, and were
recrystallized from toluene by controlled solvent evaporation technique
at room temperature. Crystal data: C10 H10 N2 O5 , Fwt.: 238.20, size:
0.75 0.67 0.52 mm, crystal system: monoclinic, space group P21 ,
, b = 24.290(2) A
, c = 7.740(1) A
, a = c = 90.00 , b =
a = 5.600(1) A
3 , T = 93(2) K, Z = 4, F(000) = 496, Dx =
96.240(4) , V = 1046.6(2) A
1.512 Mg m3 , l = 1.059 mm1 . A crystal of prism shape was mounted on
a glass bre. Cell parameters were determined by least-squares of 3150
reections in the range of 3.6378 h 72.1250 . Intensity data were
collected on a Rigaku R-AXIS RAPID image plate diffractometer25
at 93(2)
(graphite monochromator; Cu-Ka radiation, k = 1.54178 A
K in the range 3.64 h 71.78 . A total of 19078 reections were
collected of which 3716 were unique [Rint = 0.0989, Rr = 0.0906]; 3290
reections were more intense than 2r(I). Completeness to 2h = 0.951.
Numerical absorption correction was applied. The structure was solved
by direct methods.26 Neutral atomic scattering factors and anomalous
scattering factors were taken from the International Tables for X-
4 K. Ruck-Braun,
A. Stamm, S. Engel and H. Kunz, J. Org. Chem.,
1997, 62, 967.
5 (a) N. Lewis, A. McKillop, R. J. K. Taylor and R. J. Watson,
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