TY - JOUR A1 - Sardarian, Ali Reza A1 - Inaloo, Iman Dindarloo A1 - Modarresi-Alam, Ali Reza A1 - Kleinpeter, Erich A1 - Schilde, Uwe T1 - Metal-Free Regioselective Monocyanation of Hydroxy-, Alkoxy-, and Benzyloxyarenes by Potassium Thiocyanate and Silica Sulfuric Acid as a Cyanating Agent JF - The journal of organic chemistry N2 - A novel and efficient metal- and solvent-free regioselective para-C-H cyanation of hydroxy-, alkoxy-, and benzyloxyarene derivatives has been introduced, using nontoxic potassium thiocyanate as a cyanating reagent in the presence of silica sulfuric acid (SSA). The desired products are obtained in good to high yields without any toxic byproducts. Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.joc.8b02191 SN - 0022-3263 VL - 84 IS - 4 SP - 1748 EP - 1756 PB - American Chemical Society CY - Washington ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Movahedifar, Fahimeh A1 - Modarresi-Alam, Ali Reza A1 - Kleinpeter, Erich A1 - Schilde, Uwe T1 - Dynamic H-1-NMR study of unusually high barrier to rotation about the partial C-N double bond in N,N-dimethyl carbamoyl 5-aryloxytetrazoles JF - Journal of molecular structure N2 - The synthesis of new N,N-dimethyl carbamoyl 5-aryloxytetrazoles have been reported. Their dynamic H-1-NMR via rotation about C-N bonds in moiety of urea group [a; CO-NMe2 and b; (2-tetrazolyl)N-CO rotations] in the solvents CDCl3 (223-333 K) and DMSO (298-363 K) is studied. Accordingly, the free energies of activation, obtained 16.5 and 16.9 kcal mol(-1) respectively, attributed to the conformational isomerization about the Me2N-C=O bond (a rotation). Moreover, a and b barrier to rotations in 5-((4-methylphenoxy)-N,N-dimethyl-2H-tetrazole-2-carboxamide (P) also were computed at level of B3LYP using 6-311++G** basis set. The optimized geometry parameters are in good agreement with X-ray structure data. The computation of energy barrier for a and b was determined 16.9 and 2.5 kcal mol(-1), respectively. The former is completely in agreement with the result obtained via dynamic NMR. X-ray structure analysis data demonstrate that just 2-acylated tetrazole was formed in the case of 5-(p-tolyloxy)-N,N-dimethyl-2H-tetrazole-2-carboxamide. X-ray data also revealed a planar trigonal orientation of the Me2N group which is coplanar to carbonyl group with the partial double-bond C-N character. It also demonstrates the synperiplanar position of C=O group with tetrazolyl ring. On average, in solution the plane containing carbonyl bond is almost perpendicular to the plane of the tetrazolyl ring (because of steric effects as confirmed by B3LY12/6-311++G**) while the plane containing Me2N group is coplanar with carbonyl bond which is in contrast with similar urea derivatives and it demonstrates the unusually high rotational energy barrier of these compounds. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. KW - Dynamic H-1-NMR KW - Carbamoyl tetrazoles KW - Barrier to rotation about C-N bond KW - pi-Stacking KW - B3LYP/6-311++G** Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molstruc.2016.12.010 SN - 0022-2860 SN - 1872-8014 VL - 1133 SP - 244 EP - 252 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER -