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JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR CATALYSIS A-CHEMICAL
Volume 335, Issue 1-2, Pages 236-241Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.molcata.2010.11.039
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Amino-functionalization; Base catalysis; Diels-Alder cycloaddition; Knoevenagel condensation; Mesoporous materials
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- CSIR, New Delhi
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Knoevenagel condensation and [4+2] cycloaddition reactions are very important class of reactions in synthetic organic chemistry. We have prepared amino-functionalized mesoporous silica through co-condensation of 3-aminopropyltriethoxy-silane (APTES) along with tetraethylorthosilicate (TEOS) in presence of a cationic surfactant CTAB hydrothermally. Small angle powder XRD, HR TEM, FE SEM, N-2 sorption and FT IR spectroscopic tools are used to characterize the 2D-hexagonal mesostructure and to identify the presence of surface -NH2 groups in amino-functionalized mesoporous silica material. Our experimental results reveal that amino-functionalized mesoporous silica is an efficient base catalyst for the Knoevenagel condensation of different aromatic aldehydes with malononitrile to alpha,beta-unsaturated dicyanides under very mild reaction condition and in the presence of ethanol solvent. The isolated alpha,beta-unsaturated dicyanides obtained through the condensation reaction further react very efficiently with cyclopentadiene to form a series of Diels-Alder cycloaddition products in excellent yields in the absence of any catalyst. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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