Synlett 2013; 24(19): 2596-2600
DOI: 10.1055/s-0033-1339898
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Study on the Influence of a Sustainable Medium for the Design of Multistep Processes: Three-Component Synthesis of 2-Nitroamines

Calogero G. Piscopo
a   Clean Synthetic Methodology Group, Dipartimento di Chimica dell’Università, Viale G. P. Usberti 17A, 43124 Parma, Italy   Fax: +39(0521)905472   Email: raimondo.maggi@unipr.it
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Giovanni Sartori
a   Clean Synthetic Methodology Group, Dipartimento di Chimica dell’Università, Viale G. P. Usberti 17A, 43124 Parma, Italy   Fax: +39(0521)905472   Email: raimondo.maggi@unipr.it
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José A. Mayoral
b   Departamento de Química Orgánica, Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Aragón and Instituto Universitario de Catálisis Homogénea, Facultad de Ciencias, Calle Pedro Cerbuna 12, Universidad de Zaragoza, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain
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Daniela Lanari
c   Laboratory of Green Synthetic Organic Chemistry (CEMIN), Dipartimento di Chimica dell’Università, Via Elce di Sotto 8, 06123 Perugia, Italy
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Luigi Vaccaro
c   Laboratory of Green Synthetic Organic Chemistry (CEMIN), Dipartimento di Chimica dell’Università, Via Elce di Sotto 8, 06123 Perugia, Italy
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Raimondo Maggi*
a   Clean Synthetic Methodology Group, Dipartimento di Chimica dell’Università, Viale G. P. Usberti 17A, 43124 Parma, Italy   Fax: +39(0521)905472   Email: raimondo.maggi@unipr.it
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Publication History

Received: 23 July 2013

Accepted after revision: 05 September 2013

Publication Date:
16 October 2013 (online)


Abstract

An environmentally benign method was developed for the three-component, one-pot synthesis of 2-nitroamines by heating a solution of an aldehyde, an aromatic amine, and a nitroalkane in 20% water–methanol at 60 °C for five hours in the absence of a catalyst.

 
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