Development of a sustainable catalytic ester amidation process

Caldwell, Nicola and Jamieson, Craig and Simpson, Iain and Watson, Allan J. B. (2013) Development of a sustainable catalytic ester amidation process. ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering, 1 (10). pp. 1339-1344. (https://doi.org/10.1021/sc400204g)

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Abstract

We describe the development of a sustainable ester amidation process. Base and solvent screening, combined with the application of Design of Experiments methodology was employed to identify an optimized set of reaction conditions using a sustainable protocol. Utilizing these optimized conditions, treatment of a range of ester derivatives with amino alcohols in the presence of a catalytic quantity of potassium phosphate deploying iso-propanol as solvent results in the highly efficient generation of a range of amido-alcohol derivatives in good to excellent yield, accompanied with excellent reaction mass efficiency (RME).