In this study, silica-coated Fe 3 O 4 nanoparticle@silylpropyl triethylammonium polyoxometalate catalyst was fabricated and characterized using atomic absorption, inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry, elemental analysis, thermogravimetric analysis, Fourier-transform infrared, scanning electron microscopy, energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, and vibrating sample magnetometry analyses. The activity of this catalyst was examined in the synthesis of tetrahydrobenzimidazo[2,1-b]quinazolin-1(2H)-ones. The bonding of the polyoxometalate to the surface of the nanoparticles exhibited excellent catalytic activity in this synthesis. Besides, the catalyst showed good reusability and recovery from the reaction mixture. Tetrahydrobenzimidazo[2,1-b]quinazolin-1 (2H)-ones were synthesized in high yields in the presence of inexpensive supported solid acid catalysts under classical heating conditions.
The conversion of soluble polyoxometalate into insoluble polyoxometalate is considered to be one of the major challenges in synthetic organic chemistry. Here, polyoxometalate was bonded to the salt part of an organic branch immobilized on the silica‐coated Fe
3
O
4
nanoparticle and characterized using various techniques. The fabricated complex was used as a heterogeneous catalyst in a novel one‐pot reaction for synthesis of benzo[4,5]imidazo[1,2‐
a
]pyrimidin‐2‐ones using aromatic amines, dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate (DMAD), derivatives of benzaldehyde and 2‐aminobenzimidazole in water/ethanol as a green solvent. 21 derivatives of benzo[4,5]imidazo[1,2‐
a
]pyrimidin‐2‐one were synthesized by this method and fully characterized. The high stability of the catalyst showed that it can be reused for 6 times without decreasing in activity. The combination of new synthetic method, new ferromagnetic heterogeneous nano‐catalyst, green solvent and simple separation method were presented in this work.
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