An Efficient Mesoporous Cu-Organic Nanorod for Friedlander Synthesis of Quinoline and Click Reactions

Within the green chemistry context, heterogeneous catalysis for the synthesis of N-heterocycles from renewable resources using non-precious metals has garnered great interest in terms of economic and environmental perspectives. Herein, we present a triazine functional hierarchical mesoporous organic polymer (HMOP) with nanorod morphology together with large BET surface area similar to 1218 m(2)g(-1), huge pore volume &gamma tau '';6 mLg(-1) and dual micro/mesopore architectures. Subsequent Cu-coordination with nitrogen atoms of the HMOP provides a robust catalyst (Cu-HMOP) to accomplish multi-step cascade reactions for preparation of N-heterocycles by different routes. For instance, the Cu-HMOP efficiently catalyzes one-pot sequential multi-step oxidative dehydrogenative coupling of 2-aminobenzyl alcohol with diverse aromatic ketones to afford corresponding quinolines in excellent isolated yields (up to 97 %). Secondly, the present catalyst exhibits good aerobic oxidative dehydrogenation activity of amines to imines. Thirdly, for click reaction involving azides-alkynes, the Cu-HMOP produced quantitative yield for 1,4-disubstituted 1,2,3-triazole derivatives at room temperature using water as solvent. Verification of active metal leaching by a hot filtration test as well as reusability of the retrieved Cu-HMOP catalysts shows a consistent activity in the multi-component quinoline synthesis as model reaction.