Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Hydrazobenzenes toward Azo Compounds Catalyzed by tert-Butyl Nitrite in EtOH

Zhi-Qiang Wang; Jiang-Xi Yu; Shan-Qin Bai; Bang Liu; Cheng-Yong Wang; Jin-Heng Li

doi:10.1021/acsomega.0c04348

Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Hydrazobenzenes toward Azo Compounds Catalyzed by tert-Butyl Nitrite in EtOH

ACS Omega. 2020 Oct 29;5(44):28856-28862. doi: 10.1021/acsomega.0c04348. eCollection 2020 Nov 10.

Authors

Zhi-Qiang Wang¹, Jiang-Xi Yu¹, Shan-Qin Bai¹, Bang Liu¹, Cheng-Yong Wang¹, Jin-Heng Li^{1

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Affiliations

¹ Key Laboratory of Functional Metal-Organic Compounds of Hunan Province, Key Laboratory of Functional Organometallic Materials, University of Hunan Province, College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Hengyang Normal University, Hengyang 421008, China.
² State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China.
³ Key Laboratory of Jiangxi Province for Persistent Pollutants Control and Resources Recycle, Nanchang Hangkong University, Nanchang 330063, China.

Abstract

We describe a tert-butyl nitrite-catalyzed oxidative dehydrogenation of hydrazobenzenes for producing azobenzenes. This method proceeds at ambient temperature and under an atmospheric environment by employing eco-friendly EtOH as the medium, representing a mild, general route to the synthesis of various symmetrical and nonsymmetrical azobenzenes in excellent yields with broad functional group tolerance.