Cuttlebone@CuCl2 has efficiently catalyzed the one-pot azidonation of organic bromides, followed by regioselective azidealkyne 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition (CuAAC) reaction to produce the corresponding 1,4-disubstituted 1,2,3-triazole derivatives in excellent yields, in water. Importantly, cuttlebone not only used for successful immobilization of CuCl2 in order to its heterogenation, but also utilized as a natural-reducing platform which can reduce Cu II to the click-active stabilized Cu I . This mild three component synthetic approach avoids handling of hazardous and toxic azides, because of their in situ generation. Moreover, the catalyst has the advantages of being ligand-free, leaching-free, thermal stable, easy to synthesize from inexpensive commercially available precursors, environmentally friendly and recyclable for at least seven times without a significant decrease in its activity and selectivity.Scheme 1 Preparation of catalyst.
Experimental
MaterialsAll chemical reagents and solvents were purchased from Merck and Sigma-Aldrich chemical companies and were used as received without further purification. Cuttlebone was taken out from cuttlefish (Sepia esculenta), 25-28 which is commonly found in saltwater beaches like Persian Gulf in Iran.
Instrumentation analysisThe purity determinations of the products and the progress of the reactions were accomplished by TLC on silica gel polygram STL G/UV 254 plates. The melting points of the products were determined with an Electrothermal Type 9100 melting point apparatus. The FT-IR spectra were recorded on pressed KBr pellets using an AVATAR 370 FT-IR spectrometer (Therma Nicolet spectrometer, USA) at room temperature in the range between 4000 and 400 cm -1 with a resolution of 4 cm -1 , and each spectrum was the average of 32 scans. NMR spectra were recorded on a NMR Bruker Avance spectrometer at 400 and 300 MHz in CDCl 3 as solvent in the presence of tetramethylsilane as the internal standard and the coupling constants (J values) are given in Hz. Elemental analyses were performed using a Thermo Finnigan Flash EA 1112 Series instrument (furnace: 900 ˚C, oven: 65 ˚C, flow carrier: 140 mL min -1 , flow reference: 100 mL min -1 ). Mass spectra were recorded with a CH7A Varianmat Bremem instrument at 70 eV electron impact ionization, in m/z (rel %). Elemental compositions were determined with an SC7620 Energy-dispersive X-ray analysis (EDX) presenting a 133 eV resolution at 20 kV. Surface analysis spectroscopy of the catalyst was performed in an ESCA/AES system. This system was equipped with a concentric hemispherical (CHA) electron energy analyzer (Specs model EA10 plus) suitable for X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). Inductively coupled plasma (ICP) was carried out on a Varian, VISTA-PRO, CCD, Australia and 76004555 SPECTRO ARCOS ICP-OES analyzer. All yields refer to isolated products after purification by recrystallization.