Vitamin B12: An efficient type catalyst for the one-pot synthesis of 3,4,5-trisubstituted furan-2(5H)-ones and N-aryl-3-aminodihydropyrrol-2-one-4-carboxylates

Vitamin B12 was applied as catalyst for the one-pot three-component synthesis of 3,4,5-trisubstituted furan-2(5H)-ones from the condensation between aldehydes, amines and dialkylacetylendicarboxylates at ambient temperature in EtOH. In addition, N-aryl-3-aminodihydropyrrol-2-one-4-carboxylates were synthesised using mentioned catalyst at ambient temperature in EtOH from condensation between formaldehyde, amines, and dialkylacetylenedicarboxylates. This methodology has number of advantages such as: use of green and nonhazardous catalyst, clean work up, short reaction times, high yields and no need to column chromatography.

Graphical abstractVitamin B12 was applied as catalyst for the one-pot three-component synthesis of 3,4,5-trisubstituted furan-2(5H)-ones from the condensation between aldehydes, amines and dialkylacetylendicarboxylates at ambient temperature in EtOH. In addition, N-aryl-3-aminodihydropyrrol-2-one-4-carboxylates were synthesised using mentioned catalyst at ambient temperature in EtOH from condensation between formaldehyde, amines, and dialkylacetylenedicarboxylates.Figure optionsDownload full-size imageDownload as PowerPoint slide