Didecyldimethylammonium bromide (DDAB): a universal, robust, and highly potent phase-transfer catalyst for diverse organic transformations

Mandan Chidambaram, Sachin U. Sonavane, Jaima de la Zerda, Yoel Sasson*

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Abstract

Didecyldimethylammonium bromide (DDAB) has been scrutinized in comparison with traditional phase-transfer catalysts in variety of liquid-liquid reactions. It was found to be an exceptionally comprehensive, durable, and highly efficient phase-transfer catalyst (PTC) in a number of representative organic transformations such as C- and N-alkylations, isomerization, esterification, elimination, cyanation, bromination, and oxidation under very mild conditions of temperature and mixing. It was confirmed that DDAB is an exceedingly accessible and concurrently a highly liphophilic phase-transfer catalyst. This unprecedented characteristic renders DDAB to be a multipurpose catalyst that functions effectively both in mass transfer controlled and chemically controlled phase-transfer reactions.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)7696-7701
Number of pages6
JournalTetrahedron
Volume63
Issue number32
DOIs
StatePublished - 6 Aug 2007

Keywords

  • Catalytic applications
  • DDAB
  • Didecyldimethylammonium bromide
  • Organic transformations
  • Phase-transfer catalysts

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