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Mechanochemical Synthesis of Fluorinated Imines

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MOLECULES
Volume 27, Issue 14, Pages -

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MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/molecules27144557

Keywords

mechanochemistry; imines; fluorine; manual grinding; Schiff's bases

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A solvent-free mechanochemical method was used to synthesize a number of imines, including 12 new compounds. The method resulted in short reaction times, high yields, and has potential for large-scale synthesis. It also contributes to environmental protection. The method is versatile and can be applied to the synthesis of chiral benzylamines and similar amines.
A number of imines, including 12 new compounds, previously not reported in the literature, derived from variously fluorinated benzaldehydes and different anilines or chiral benzylamines were synthesized by a solvent-free mechanochemical method, which was based on the manual grinding of equimolar amounts of the substrates at the room temperature. In a very short reaction time of only 15 min, the method produced the expected products with good-to-excellent yields. The yields were comparable or significantly higher than those reported in the literature for the imines synthesized by other methods. Importantly, the conditions used for the reactions with aniline derivatives also resulted in the high yields of imines obtained from chiral benzylamines, and can be extended to the synthesis with other similar amines. Structures of all imines were confirmed by NMR spectroscopy: H-1, C-13 and F-19. For four compounds, X-ray structures were also obtained. The synthetic approach presented in this paper contributes to the prevention of environmental pollution and can be easily extended for larger-scale syntheses. The mechanochemical solvent-free method provides a convenient strategy particularly useful for the preparation of fluorinated imines being versatile intermediates or starting material in the synthesis of drugs and other fine chemicals.

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