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JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
Volume 81, Issue 14, Pages 5814-5823Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.6b01190
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- NAWI Graz
- Research Center Pharmaceutical Engineering (RCPE)
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A configurationally simple and robust semi batch apparatus for the in situ on-demand generation of anhydrous solutions of diazomethane (CH2N2) avoiding distillation methods is presented. Diazomethane is produced by base-mediated decomposition of commercially available Diazald within a semipermeable Teflon AF-2400 tubing and subsequently selectively separated from the tubing into a solvent-and substrate-filled flask (tube-in-flask reactor). Reactions with CH2N2 can therefore be performed directly in the flask without dangerous and labor-intensive purification operations or exposure of the operator to CH2N2. The reactor has been employed for the methylation of carboxylic acids, the synthesis of alpha-chloro ketones and pyrazoles, and palladium-catalyzed cyclopropanation reactions on laboratory. The implementation of in-line FTIR technology allowed monitoring of the CH2N2 generation and its consumption. In addition, larger scales (1.8 g diazomethane per hour) could be obtained via parallelization (numbering up) by simply wrapping several membrane tubings into the flask.
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