Zirconium‐β Zeolite‐Catalyzed Continuous‐Flow Friedel‐Crafts Acylation Reaction

Incremental Identification of a Full Model of a Twophase Friedelcrafts Acylation Reaction

Due to the efficient product separation and catalyst immobilization, multi-phase catalytic systems are attractive for industrial applications. Nevertheless, it is usually difficult to decouple reaction and mass transfer kinetics such that the experimental determination of reaction kinetics is masked by mass transfer effects. A novel incremental identification methodology tailored to homogeneous...

Biocatalytic Friedel–Crafts Acylation and Fries Reaction

The Friedel-Crafts acylation is commonly used for the synthesis of aryl ketones, and a biocatalytic version, which may benefit from the chemo- and regioselectivity of enzymes, has not yet been introduced. Described here is a bacterial acyltransferase which can catalyze Friedel-Crafts C-acylation of phenolic substrates in buffer without the need of CoA-activated reagents. Conversions reach up to...

Diastereoselective synthesis of bridged polycyclic alkaloids via tandem acylation/intramolecular Diels-Alder reaction.

A mild and efficient stereoselective synthesis of hexacyclic indole alkaloids with a tetrahydro-β-carboline motif has been developed by utilizing the Pictet-Spengler reaction and tandem N-acylation followed by intramolecular Diels-Alder cyclization. Initially, a diene unit was installed in the tetrahedron β-carboline skeleton through Pictet-Spengler cyclization of the corresponding aldehyde wit...

Efficient O‐Acylation of Alcohols and Phenol Using Cp2TiCl as a Reaction Promoter

A method has been developed for the conversion of primary, secondary, and tertiary alcohols, and phenol, into the corresponding esters at room temperature. The method uses a titanium(III) species generated from a substoichiometric amount of titanocene dichloride together with manganese(0) as a reductant, as well as methylene diiodide. It involves a transesterification from an ethyl ester, or a ...

Mild and Nondestructive Chemical Modification of Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs): Direct Friedel-Crafts Acylation Reaction