Cu(I) nanoparticles immobilized onto Poly (Vinylpyridine-N-N-Methylenebisacrylamide-Acrylicacid) as a new, efficient and recyclable catalyst for the regioselective synthesis of 1, 2, 3-Triazoles via click reaction in water

Document Type : Reasearch Paper

Authors

• Mahdieh Ghavidel
• Seyed Yahya Shirazi Beheshtiha
• Majida Heravi

Department of Chemistry, School of Sciences, Alzahra University, Vanak, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

Poly (vinylpyridine-N-N-methylenebisacrylamide-acrylicacid) (2-VP-MBAm-AA) was prepared from the reaction of TiO₂-methacryloxypropyltrimethoxysilane (TiO₂-MAPTMS) with 2-vinylpyridine, methylenbisacrylamide (MBAm) and tert-butyl acrylate (t-BuA). Subsequently (2-VP-MBAm-AA) was reacted with CuI to give the Cu(I) NPs supported onto the above polymer. These immobilized nano-particles were characterized by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX), FT-IR and inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES). This well characterized composite was examined as effective and reusable heterogeneous catalyst in water for the regioselective synthesis of 1, 4-disubstituted 1, 2, 3-triazoles in excellent yields. The catalyst can be recovered by simple filtration and reused for at least five runs without losing its efficiency.

Keywords

• Click reaction
• Cu(I) nanoparticles
• Heterogeneous catalysis
• Regioselective
• 1, 2, 3-Triazoles

20.1001.1.20088868.2018.9.4.8.8

Main Subjects

• Nanocatalyst
• Nanochemistry

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 INTRODUCTION

Nowadays research in synthetic organic and medicinal chemistry, are focused on the synthesis of structurally complex molecules through a rational design. Importantly, if these molecules show any practical applications, the synthetic pathway should be both synthetically operational and economically feasible [1].

Due to their high accessible surface area and unique quantum effect, immobilized-metal nanoparticles are among the very interesting and effective catalytic components [2]. Among different base-metal-NPs, copper nanoparticles (Cu NPs) show the particularly unique catalytic activity in a broad range of chemical transformation and energy related areas such as the Huisegn 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of azide-alkyne [3, 4], hydrogenation [5], reduction [6, 7], oxidation [8] and cross-coupling reactions [9].

Utilization of metal-NPs in catalyzed organic transformations have attracted much attention of organic synthetic chemists due to their remarkable electronic, optical, and catalytic qualities and also their significant large surface area to volume ratio [10, 11].

Cu(I) and Cu(II)–catalyzed reactions in organic transformations are well-studied and appreciated [12]. Based on the substantial kind of surface, size and quantum effects, use of nanoparticles (NPs), with the well-recognized unique properties are more favorable comparing with the use of their ordinary counter parts [13]. NPs are more active under mild reaction conditions and at the same time the essential features of a heterogeneous catalysis are maintained [13].

In addition, the industrial catalysts often work on the surface of metals, thus metal-NPs, which has much surface area per unit volume or weight in comparison with virgin metal are considered as gifted catalysts [14].

Copper NPs can be provided via different procedures such as thermal decomposition of precursors, reduction from a solution by mild reducing agents as well as electrochemical methods [12, 15-19].

They can also be prepared by photoreduction, MWI, micro emulsion techniques and laser ablation [20-25]. In addition, using ultrasonic irradiation recently has attracted tremendous attention in the preparation of nanomaterials [26-28].

Cu-based nanocatalysts have exhibited several applications in the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology, including a wide range of catalyzed-organic reactions, electrocatalysis, and photocatalysis [29-37].

Immobilization of homogeneous catalysts on solid supports often presents advantages. These supported catalysts have attracted much attention in organic synthesis for different reasons [38, 39] including easy separation from the reaction mixture by simple filtration and sometimes providing high catalytic activity, stability, and selectivity in comparison to unsupported materials [40, 41].

The cycloaddition is the reaction of a dipolarophile with a 1,3-dipolar compound that leads to 5-membered heterocycles. The azide-alkyne Huisgen cycloaddition is a 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition between an azide and a terminal or internal alkyne to give 1,2,3-triazole ring. Rolf Huisgen was the first who understood the scope of this organic reaction. Regrettably, the thermal Huisgen 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of alkynes to azides required elevated temperatures and often produced mixtures of the two regioisomers when asymmetric alkynes are used [42]. In this respect, the classic 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition fails as an ideal reaction as well as requiring harsh reaction conditions [43].

However, the Cu(I)-catalyzed 1,3-dipolar Huisegn cycloaddition has circumvented these back draws.

In 2002, Sharpless et al. [44] reported that the use of catalytic amounts of Cu(I) resulted in the rapid and regioselective Huisegn azide-alkyne cycloadditions at ambient temperature. Latter they called this reaction as a cream crop of click reaction [45-47].

The role of Cu(I) as a coordinating agent in the mechanistic pathway of click reactions has now been well established. As a matter of fact the coordination of Cu(I) with terminal alkynes along with the activation of azide species to produce a copper-azide-acetylide complex were responsible for such advantages [48, 49]. Nowadays, it is well known that the ligand protects the Cu ion from undesired interactions leading to degradation and generation of side products and more importantly prevents the oxidation of the Cu(I) species to the Cu(II) [50, 51] Moreover, immobilization of Cu(I) nanoparticles on different kinds of supports compared to Cu(0) NPs is a useful method to make them heterogeneous, thus easily recoverable and reusable [52-54].

Thus, notable variant of the Huisgen 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition is the modified Cu(I)-catalyzed reaction is no longer a true concerted cycloaddition, in which organic azides and terminal alkynes are united to afford 1,4-regioisomers of 1,2,3-triazoles as the sole products.

The copper(I)-catalyzed variant was first reported in 2002 in independently Meldal at the Carlsberg Laboratory in Denmark [55] and then by K. Barry Sharpless at the Scripps Research Institute [47]. Thus, at ambient and green conditions, 1,2,3-triazoles can be synthesized. They are a significant class of heterocyclic compound due to their usefulness as agrochemicals, dyes, corrosion inhibitors, photostabilizers, fluorescent whiteners and optical brightening agents [56] and photographic materials [57-61].

1,2,3-Triazoles exhibit a wide range of biological activity and even pharmaceutical properties such as antiviral, antifungal, antitubercular [62], antiepileptic antimalarial, antidiabetic, anticancer [63], antibacterial, antiallergic, anti-HIV activity and selective β3 adrenergic receptor agonist [64-68].

Nowadays, it has been found that N-substituted 1,2,3-triazoles have more potential uses than simple 1,2,3-triazole derivatives [69]. Nonetheless, for the synthesis of N-substituted 1,2,3-triazoles via Cu(I)-catalyzed azide-alkyne 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition (CuAAC) [70], the starting materials, such as functional alkynes and organic azides were not easily accessible and those commercially available are expensive.

In addition, although the synthesis of N-substituted 1,2,3-triazoles proceed smoothly in the presence of Cu salts as homogeneous catalyst, their separation and recovery from the reaction mixture is usually difficult. Besides, it is possible that the obtained 1,2,3-triazoles were contaminated by the Cu metal in homogeneous catalysis. In order to overcome the above deficiencies and cumbersome, immobilizing the Cu salts as heterogeneous catalysts in CuAAC reaction is still in much demands.

Recently, polymer-supported reagents have attracted much attention as insoluble matrices in organic synthesis [71]. A wide range of polymer-supported nanoparticles of Cu(I) as reusable catalyst in the click synthesis of 1,2,3-triazoles between azides and alkynes have been reported [72-74]. Polymeric supports bearing nitrogen as electron releasing atoms are of distinctive importance. One of such polymers is cross-linked. Poly(vinylpyridine) (PVPy) which is a functionalized polymer is able to coordinate with different transition metal ions. The complexation between PVPy and several transition metals have been prepared and employed as catalysts in several organic transformations [75-80].

Cross-linked PVPy, as insoluble polymer showing unique properties, nowadays they are frequently used as support for preparing heterogeneous catalysts. It shows extraordinary properties such as: (a) it can undergo easy functionalization, (b) it has several accessible functional groups, (c) it is not hygroscopic, (d) it can be provided easily and even some of them are commercially available, (e) it can be easily filtered, and (f) it can be swelled in conventional organic solvents [81]. Noticeably, PVPy has two market purchasable isomers so-called poly(4-vinylpyridine) (P₄VPy), and poly(2-vinylpyridine) (P₂VPy) [81]. Some differences in the performance and properties between some derivatives of P₄VPy and P₂VPy have been recognized and previously reported [82-86]. P₂VPy can be made with different strategies exhibiting fascinating physical and chemical properties [81].

Poly (2-VP-MBAm-AA) is a copolymer that has been prepared from 2-vinyl pyridine and tert-butyl acrylate (t-BuA) as a monomer and N,N-methylenbisacrylamide (MBAm) as a crosslinker to acquire a three-dimensional skeleton [83].

We are interested in heterocyclic chemistry [87-95] via MCR [73, 74, 96, 97] under green conditions [98] and heterogeneous catalysis, applied in a wide range of organic transformations [99]. We have also recently had successful attempts for the synthesis of 1,2,3-triazoles, via click reaction under heterogeneous catalysis [73-75, 100-104] including their theoretical studies.

Worthy to emphasize that the Poly (2-VP-MBAm-AA) nanocomposite has never been examined as catalyst in organic transformation but used as a colorimetric sensor based on dithizone-anchored poly (vinyl pyridine-N,N-methylenebisacrylamide-acrylic acid) (poly (2-VP-MBAm-AA)) nanocomposite  for detection of mercury and lead ions trace levels from aqueous media [83].

In this study, we have investigated the reaction of TiO₂-MAPTMS with 2-vinylpyridine, methylenbisacrylamide and tert‐butyl acrylate to obtain the poly (vinyl pyridine-N,N-methylenebisacrylamide-acrylic acid) (poly (2-VP-MBAm-AA)) [83] and used it as a support of immobilization of nano-Cu(I) for the preparation of a novel heterogeneous catalyst so called TiO₂/poly (2-VP-MBAm-AA)-CuI.

For preventing the agglomeration tendency of NPs, Cu(I) NPs were prepared in situ [102] and supported on the polymer surface to afford the immobilized heterogeneous catalyst. This novel nanocatalyst was examined in a one-pot three-component click synthesis of 1,4-disubstituted-1H-1,2,3-triazoles involving α-haloketones or benzyl halides, sodium azide, and terminal alkynes via click reaction in water as a greenest and most abundant solvent.

Thoroughly Cu-NPs were prepared via a facile and effective methodology. By using the above-mentioned novel catalyst, the regioselective products could be separated by a simple filtration, thus, avoiding time-consuming and problematic separation steps. High yields, short reaction times, regioselectivity, mild reaction conditions and five repeated runs, with very low leaching of the immobilized catalyst, make this strategy very simple and useful for the synthesis of wide range of 1,4-disubstituted 1,2,3-triazoles.

Furthermore, using water as green reaction medium and experimental simplicity are other advantages of using this catalyst in the synthesis of triazoles via click reaction.

CuI nanoparticles has less cytotoxicity of the traditional Cu(I) reagents. Hence, we think our catalyst is worthwhile to be examined to other copper-catalyzed organic transformations.

EXPERIMENTAL

Materials and methods

N,N-Dimethylformamide (DMF) and acetonitrile were distilled and stored over 4 A° molecular sieve before use; other reagents were used as received from Aldrich and Merck Chemical Companies with high-grade quality. Copper content was measured by SPECTRO ARCOS ICP-OES analyzer. Scanning electron micrographs were recorded using Tescan Vega-3 LMU SEM instruments. FT-IR spectra were recorded on FT-IR Bruker Tensor 27 instrument using KBr disks in the 500–4,000 cm^-1 region.

Preparation of the TiO₂/poly (2-VP-MBAm-AA) nanocomposite

Synthesis of TiO₂ nanoparticle

Initially TiO₂ NPs were provided in accordance to the procedure reported, previously [82]. Accordingly, aqueous solution of ammonium sulfate (1.5 mol L^-1) and titanium (IV) chloride (0.75 mol L^-1) were mixed to react. This reaction proceeded at 75 °C and completed in 90 min. Upon completion of this reaction, NH₄OH (2.5 mol L^-1) was gradually added under vigorous stirring until the pH of mixture was reached to 7. Then, the obtained solid was filtered off, washed with water/ethanol and dried at 60 °C. Then calcination of NPs was achieved at 350 °C for 4 h which allowed to cool down to room temperature [83].

Preparation of TiO₂-MAPTMS

For preparation of TiO₂-MAPTMS NPs, we followed our previously reported method [83]. Accordingly, TiO₂ NPs (1g) were dispersed in dry toluene (30 ml) using ultrasonic bath for 15 min. Then, MAPTMS (2 ml) was added as a coupling agent, drop wise to the mixture and the solution was kept under N₂atmosphere at ambient temperature for 48 h with vigorous stirring. The final product was separated by centrifugation and washed with toluene twice. Then modified TiO₂ NPs were dried under vacuum at 60 ◦C for 24 h.

Preparation of TiO₂/poly (2-VP-MBAm-AA)

To provide hydrogel in 1:0.2:1 mole ratios, 2-VP, MBAm and t-BuA, TiO₂-MAPTMS (0.5 g) were dissolved in DMSO (15 ml) and dispersed using ultrasonic bath for 15 min, under stirring and N₂ purging for the same time, 2-Vp, (3 ml), t-BuA (4.1 ml) and MBAm (0.9 g) were added to the reaction mixture and stirred for 2 h. Ultimately, the resulting solution was heated up to 80 °C with subsequent addition of AIBN (0.08 g). The polymerization was occurred in 2 h. The obtained hydrogel was washed several times with EtOH for the removal of unreacted monomers and then dried at 50 °C. To hydrolyze the obtained hydrogel, the dried hydrogel (1g) was poured into the reaction vessel contained CH₂Cl₂ (40 ml) and TFA (5 ml). Upon stirring the mixture in 24 h, the hydrolyzed hydrogel was washed with EtOH/H₂O and dried at 60 °C [83].

Preparation of Cu(I) immobilized onto TiO₂/poly (2-VP-MBAm-AA)

CuI (0.247 g) was dissolved in dry CH₃CN (2 ml) under ultrasonic and stirred for a while to obtain a transparent light yellow solution. Then DMF (20 ml) was added at ambient temperature to obtain CuI NPs [102-105]. It was then transferred into a 100 ml round-bottom flask containing dry polymer-supported (1 g). Then the mixture was magnetically stirred at reflux temperature for 5 h under a nitrogen atmosphere. The TiO₂/poly (2-VP-MBAm-AA)-CuI as a heterogeneous catalyst was filtrated and washed with CH₃CN (2×20 ml) and dried under vacuum at 60 ◦C for 24 h.

General procedure Synthesis of 1,4disubstituted 1,2,3triazoles: General procedure

In a round-bottom flask, an appropriate α-halogenoketone (1 mmol) or benzyl halide (1 mmol) (5a–e), a suitable alkyne (1 mmol) (6a-6c), sodium azide (1.1 mmol), and water (10 ml) were placed. Then, TiO₂/poly (2-VP-MBAm-AA)-CuI catalyst 4 (0.02 g) was added (Fig. 1), and the suspension was magnetically stirred under reflux for the appropriate time. The progress of the reaction was monitored by TLC (using n-hexane: ethyl acetate; 7:3 as eluent). Upon the completion of the reaction, the resin was filtered off and washed with hot EtOH. The recovered catalyst was washed with acetone, dried under reduced pressure at 70 ºC for 3 h and stored for being employed in another reaction. Upon evaporation of the solvent of the filtrate, a solid was obtained which was recrystallized from hot EtOH to give the pure products in high yields. All the obtained triazoles (8a–h) were known and their physical data were compared with those of authentic samples and were found being identical [84-86, 106-110].

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

Preparation and characterization of TiO₂/poly (2-VP-MBAm-AA)

The TiO₂ nanoparticles were initially provided in accordance with the procedure reported in the literature, previously [82] followed by modification using MAPTMS. Then, TiO₂-MAPTMS react with 2-vinylpyridine, methylenbisacrylamide (MBAm) and tert-butyl acrylate (t-BuA) to form TiO₂/poly (2-VP-MBAm-AA) for being examined as a polymeric support (Fig. 2) The structure of product of each step was confirmed by FT-IR spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, SEM images and thermogravimetry analysis [83].

Preparation and characterization of the catalyst

Poly(vinyl pyridine) was known as a reactive species due to its high nucleophilicity but weakly basic due to ring nitrogen. Then, CuI NPs were supported to the synthesized above mentioned polymer support. In order to prevent agglomeration of the nanoparticles, Cu(I) NPs were synthesized in situ and then refluxed with polymer support under N₂ atmosphere in DMF [111]. In this way, Cu(I) NPs were immobilized onto polymer support to obtain polymer-supported CuI nanoparticle catalyst (Fig. 2). As expected, the TiO₂/poly (2-VP-MBAm-AA)-CuI NPs were insoluble in all common organic solvents thus, its structural characterization was limited to obtain their SEM, EDX, and ICP analysis.

The SEM of the TiO₂/poly (2-VP-MBAm-AA)-CuI NPs (Fig. 3) vividly illustrated that the Cu(I) nanoparticles were homogeneously supported on the prepared polymer surface. The average size of Cu(I) NPs was estimated to be 43.85-75.24 nm.

Energy dispersive spectroscopy analysis (EDX) data for the TiO₂/poly (2-VP-MBAm-AA)-CuI nanocatalyst is illustrated given in Fig. 4. The EDX data confirms that polymer matrix is containing Cu(I) NPs onto its surface. This data along with other aforementioned data such as SEM and FT‐IR approved the attachment of Cu(I) NPs onto TiO₂/poly (2-VP-MBAm-AA).

The FT-IR spectrum of our sample was found identical to the already reported for TiO₂ nanoparticles, TiO₂-MAPTMS, TiO₂/poly (2-VPMBAm-t-BuA) nanocomposite [83] is shown in Fig. 5. As it can be seen clearly in Fig. 5a, the absorption broad bands below 800 cm^-1 and the broad peak in ۳۰۳۸ cm^-1 can be assigned to the Ti-O bond vibration and hydroxyl groups of TiO₂ nanoparticles, respectively [112]. On the other hand, the peaks in 956 cm^-1, 1639 cm-1, 1712 cm^-1 and ۲۸۷۹-۲۹۱۹ cm^-1 can be  assigned to the Ti-O-Si, C=C and C=O moieties, respectively (Fig. 5b) [113-115]. In conclusion, the preparation and modification TiO₂-MAPTMS has been approved.

The fruitful polymerization can be realized and approved by the appearing and presence of new peaks in IR spectrum shown in Fig. 5c. The other characteristic  bands  at 1732 cm^-1  attributed to ester groups of t-BuA, at 1659 cm^-1 associated to amide carbonyl groups and ۱۵۳۳ cm^-1 assigned to the N-H bond of MBAm bending vibration [116], 1593 cm^-1 and ۱۵۵۷ cm^-1 corresponding to the pyridine-stretching vibrations [117, 118] 1149 cm^-1, and 1248 cm^-1 associated to CO-C and C-N bonds, respectively [118, 119]. Upon the hydrolysis of t-BuA, appearance of a new peak at 1692 cm^-1 clearly the presence of carboxyl moieties. Notably, the intensity of C-O-C at ۱۱۴۹ cm^-1 was also reduced and can be clearly observed.

FT-IR spectrum (Fig. 6) of prepared Cu(I) NPs catalyst revealed the interaction of TiO₂/poly (2-VP-MBAm-t-BuA) with Cu(I) NPs by observation of changes and shifts for the positions of several bands.

Determination of the copper content in TiO₂/poly (2-VP-MBAm-AA)-Cu(I)

The Cu content of polymer was evaluated upon treatment of TiO₂/poly (2-VP-MBAm-AA)-CuI (100 mg) with a mixture of Conc. HCl/HNO₃ (1:1, 10 ml) by digestion of the copper species. The mixture was transferred into a volumetric flask (100 ml), diluted and then was analyzed by ICP. The Cu concentration was determined from the atomic emission (324.754 nm) by reference to a linear (R = 0.99) calibration curve of (1–4 ppm) of CuI provided by a procedure similar to the sample preparation. The Cu content was defined being 6.6 % w/w. The same procedure was employed to disclose the extent of leaching from the immobilized catalyst after five consecutive runs.

Catalytic activity of the catalyst in the click reaction

Initially, a mixture of benzylchloride (1 mmol), sodium azide (1.1 mmol), and phenylacetylene (1 mmol) was chosen as a model reaction in the presence of catalytic amount of TiO₂/poly (2-VP-MBAm-AA)-CuI and in different solvents (Table 1).

Although the ‘click’ azide-alkyne cycloaddition reaction has been successfully examined in a wide range of common organic solvents, but as illustrated in Table 1, it can be seen that water acts as the most efficient solvent in comparison to the others thus we used water as the solvent of choice. We focused our attention on the reaction in pure water, since this is the solvent of choice in green chemistry as well as being accessible virtually free of cost. Thus, to test the substrate scope of reaction in water various terminal alkynes and α-halo ketones or benzyl halides were successfully examined, establishing the generality of our methodology (Table 2).

Recyclability of the catalyst

It is worthwhile to mention that for the resin, extensive mechanical degradation after its catalytic activity was not observed as for a real heterogeneous catalysis. The supported catalyst should not leach into the reaction mixture since the reusability of the catalyst is much in concern. To study these properties for our new catalytic system, we selected the reaction of benzyl chloride, phenyl acetylene, and sodium azide as a model reaction. We observed no appreciable loss in the catalytic activity after five consecutive runs (Fig. 7), and no need for reloading the catalyst. As a matter of fact, the difference in the Cu content for the fresh and recycled catalyst was not significant after the five run, confirming a low leaching for our new catalyst system.

CONCLUSIONS

In this summary, for the first time, we developed a Cu(I), catalytic system with the heterogeneous catalysts merits, for example rapid and easy separation of the catalytic system by simple filtration as well as efficient recovery and reusing it in a one-pot synthesis of 1,4-disubstituted-1H-1,2,3-triazoles via click reaction of terminal alkynes, α-halo ketones and NaN₃ in the presence of a new recyclable catalyst at reflux temperature in water as the greenest and most abundant solvent. The 1,2,3-triazoles were obtained regioselectively in satisfactory yields purities, confirmed by comparison of their physical with those of authentic samples and were found being identical.

Furthermore, using water as solvent, operational simplicity, ease of work-up and clean procedure, make this newly introduced catalyst as an useful and important additional strategy to the already reported protocols for the regioselective synthesis of 1,2,3-triazoles. Our observation showed that this catalyst give satisfactory yields in reasonable reaction times and can be used for five consecutive runs, with very low leaching of the immobilized Cu(I). Therefore, this modified TiO₂/poly (2-VP-MBAm-AA)-CuI can be considered as an attractive support in the synthesis of polymer supported catalysts in other organic transformations especially those catalyzed by Cu(I). The produced Cu(I) NPs catalyst was characterized by FT-IR, SEM, EDX, ICP–OES methods.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The authors are thankful to Alzahra Research Council for partial financial support.

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

The authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest regarding the publication of this manuscript.

 

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