Synthesis of α-amino amidines through molecular iodine-catalyzed three-component coupling of isocyanides, aldehydes and amines

• Praveen Reddy Adiyala,
• D. Chandrasekhar,
• Jeevak Sopanrao Kapure,
• Chada Narsimha Reddy and
• Ram Awatar Maurya

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 2065–2070, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.214

• the synthesis of α-amino amidines has been developed using a molecular iodine-catalyzed three-component coupling reaction of isocyanides, amines, and aldehydes. The presented strategy offers the advantages of mild reaction conditions, low environmental impact, clean and simple methodology, high atom

• economy, wide substrate scope and high yields. Keywords: α-amino amidines; iodine; isocyanide; multicomponent reaction; Ugi reaction; Introduction Amidines are a class of organic compounds exhibiting a variety of biological activity that makes them potential candidates for drug development and discovery

• ], ZnO nanoparticles [18] and BF3·OEt2 [19] were reported with varying degrees of success. All these reported methods for the preparation of α-amino amidines have their own limitations such as long reaction times, high catalyst loading and use of expensive and hazardous metal catalysts. Therefore, the