The role of silver carbonate as a catalyst in the synthesis of N-phenylbenzamide from benzoic acid and phenyl isocyanate: a mechanistic exploration
Yang Yang A , Benjamin Spyrou A , Paul S. Donnelly A , Allan J. Canty B and Richard A. J. O’Hair
A *
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A School of Chemistry, Bio21 Institute of Molecular Science and Biotechnology, The University of Melbourne, Vic. 3010, Australia.
B School of Natural Sciences – Chemistry, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 75, Hobart, Tas. 7001, Australia.
Australian Journal of Chemistry 75(9) 495-505 https://doi.org/10.1071/CH21258
Submitted: 29 September 2021 Accepted: 1 November 2021 Published: 11 February 2022
© 2022 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing.
Abstract
The gas-phase extrusion–insertion (ExIn) reactions of a silver complex [(BPS)Ag(O2CC6H5)]2− ([BPS]2− = 4,7-diphenyl-1,10-phenanthroline-disulfonate), generated via electrospray ionisation was investigated by Multistage Mass Spectrometry (MSn) experiments in a linear ion trap combined with density functional theory (DFT) calculations. Extrusion of carbon dioxide under collision-induced dissociation (CID) generates the organosilver intermediate [(BPS)Ag(C6H5)]2−, which subsequently reacts with phenyl isocyanate via insertion to yield [(BPS)Ag(NPhC(O)C6H5)]2−. Further CID of the product ion resulted in the formation of [(BPS)Ag(C6H5)]2−, [(BPS)Ag]− and C6H5C(O)NPh−. The formation of a coordinated amidate anion is supported by DFT calculations. Heating a mixture of benzoic acid, phenyl isocyanate, silver carbonate (5 mol%) and phenanthroline (20 mol%) in DMSO and heating by microwave irradiation led to the formation N-phenyl-benzamide in an isolated yield of 89%. The yield decreased to 74% without the addition of phenanthroline, while replacing silver carbonate with sodium carbonate gave an isolated yield of 84%, suggesting that the ExIn reaction may not operate in solution. This was confirmed using benzoic acid with a 13C-isotopic-label at the carboxylate carbon as the starting material, which, under microwave heating in the presence of phenyl isocyanate, silver carbonate (5 mol%) and phenanthroline (20 mol%) gave N-phenyl-benzamide with retention of the 13C isotopic label based on GC-MS experiments under electron ionisation (EI) conditions. DFT calculations using a solvent continuum reveal that the barriers associated with the pathway involving direct attack by the non-coordinated benzoate are below the ExIn pathways for the coordinated silver benzoate.
Keywords: Amide Formation, Benzoic acid, Decarboxylation, DFT calculations, Isocyanate, mass spectrometry, Silver.
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