Chem. J. Chinese Universities ›› 2016, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (5): 902.doi: 10.7503/cjcu20150883

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Regiospecific Aminobromination of β-Nitrostyrene Derivatives with Acrylamide and N-Bromobutanimide

DU Manfei, HOU Dan, HUI Wenping, CHEN Zhanguo*()   

  1. Key Laboratory for Macromolecular Science of Shaanxi Province, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an 710119, China
  • Received:2015-11-19 Online:2016-05-10 Published:2016-04-20
  • Contact: CHEN Zhanguo E-mail:chzhg@snnu.edu.cn
  • Supported by:
    † Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.20572066), the Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province, China(No.2009JM2001) and the Innovation Foundation of Postgraduate Cultivation of Shaanxi Normal University, China(No.2008CXB009)

Abstract:

A new protocol for the high regioselective aminobromination of β-nitrostyrene derivatives with acrylamide and N-Bromobutanimide(NBS) as nitrogen/bromine sources was developed. β-Nitrostyrene derivatives reacted with acrylamide and NBS promoted by CH3CH2ONa at room temperature(without the protection of an inert gaseous atmosphere) in CH2Cl2, offered vicinal haloamine products in good yields(up to 83%). For the β-methyl-β-nitrostyrene, the good yields(up to 98%) were also achieved in CH3OH promoted by Na2CO3. Although the strong electron-donating substituents(e.g., OCH3) on the 4-position of benzene ring could deactivated the reaction activity of β-nitrostyrenederi-vetives, the vicinal haloamines were also afforded as the sole addition product. Whereas strong electron-withdrawing substituents(e.g., NO2) could activated reaction activity remarkably and the vicinal haloamines were afforded as the sole addition product, too. The result revealed that the addition reaction has a nucleophilic addition feature. The aminobromination of 25 examples of β-nitrostyrenes were investigated and the structure of all products were confirmed by the corresponding nuclear magnetic resonance(NMR) spectra and high resolution mass spectrometer(HRMS). A possible mechanism involving a nucleophilic conjugate addition was proposed.

Key words: Aminobromination, β, -Nitrostyrene, Regiospecific, Acrylamide, N-Bromobutanimide

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