Rasta resin–triphenylphosphine oxides and their use as recyclable heterogeneous reagent precursors in halogenation reactions

• Xuanshu Xia and
• Patrick H. Toy

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1397–1405, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.143

• the dehydration of oximes 12 to form nitriles 13. Capitalizing on the fact that 1 is formed as a byproduct from 3a,b in each of these reactions, Denton and co-workers have recently combined the Masaki–Fukui reaction with many of the functional group transformation outlined in Scheme 2, in one-pot

Gallium-containing polymer brush film as efficient supported Lewis acid catalyst in a glass microreactor

• Rajesh Munirathinam,
• Roberto Ricciardi,
• Richard J. M. Egberink,
• Jurriaan Huskens,
• Michael Holtkamp,
• Herbert Wormeester,
• Uwe Karst and
• Willem Verboom

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 1698–1704, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.194

• X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). XPS revealed the presence of one gallium per 2–3 styrene sulfonate groups of the polymer brushes. The catalytic activity of the Lewis acid-functionalized brushes in a microreactor was demonstrated for the dehydration of oximes, using cinnamaldehyde oxime as a

• model substrate, and for the formation of oxazoles by ring closure of ortho-hydroxy oximes. The catalytic activity of the microreactor could be maintained by periodic reactivation by treatment with GaCl3. Keywords: dehydration of oximes; flow chemistry; gallium; microreactors; Lewis acid catalysis

• substrate scope of the dehydration of oximes was extended using the same reaction conditions as above (Table 2). 4-Nitrobenzaldehyde oxime (3, Table 2, entry 1) resulted in a conversion of 62% within 13 min reaction time, while for the batch reaction, using gallium(III) triflate as a catalyst, 16 h at 120