Exceptionally Active Catalysts
for the Formation of Carbamates from Alcohols and Isocyanates:
Molybdenum(VI) Dichloride Dioxide and Its DMF Complex

Christian Stock; Reinhard Brückner

doi:10.1055/s-0030-1258552

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Exceptionally Active Catalysts for the Formation of Carbamates from Alcohols and Isocyanates: Molybdenum(VI) Dichloride Dioxide and Its DMF Complex

Christian Stock, Reinhard Brückner*
Institut für Organische Chemie und Biochemie, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Albert-Str. 21, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
Fax: +49(761)2036100; e-Mail: reinhard.brueckner@organik.chemie.uni-freiburg.de;

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Small amounts of MoO₂Cl₂ or MoO₂Cl₂(DMF)₂ catalyze carbamate formation from an alcohol and isocyanates: 0.1 mol% of the respective additive allow primary, secondary or tertiary alcohols to add to aliphatic or aromatic isocyanates of varied steric hindrance within 20 minutes at room temperature. Typically the corresponding carbamate resulted in 100% yield. Only particularly hindered substrates required 1.0 mol% of the catalyst while as little as 0.01% sufficed for the phenylcarbamoylation of menthol. Catalytic amounts of DMAP accelerate carbamate formation from certain alcohols and isocyanates, too.

Key words

addition - carbamoylation - DMAP - heterocumulene - urethane formation

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All new compounds (12, 15, 36, and 37) gave satisfactory ^¹H NMR and ^¹³C NMR spectra and correct combustion analyses for C, H, and N (±0.30%). Analytical details will be published in a full paper in due course.