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Ammonium metavanadate (NH4VO3): a highly efficient and eco-friendly catalyst for one-pot synthesis of pyridines and 1,4-dihydropyridines

  • Sci Rep. 2022 Aug 11;12(1):13687. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-17378-7.
Jamal Rahimi 1 Maryam Niksefat 1 Marzieh Heidari 2 Mehdi Naderi 1 Hadis Abbasi 1 Mohammad Tajik Ijdani 1 Ali Maleki 3
Affiliations

Affiliations

  • 1 Catalysts and Organic Synthesis Research Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, 16846-13114, Iran.
  • 2 Department of Chemistry, Rutgers University, 73 Warren Street, Newark, NJ, 07102, USA.
  • 3 Catalysts and Organic Synthesis Research Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, 16846-13114, Iran. maleki@iust.ac.ir.
Abstract

In this study, we reported the ammonium metavanadate (NH4VO3) as an efficient, cost-effective, and mild catalyst for the synthesis of substituted pyridines via a one-pot pseudo four-component reaction. Furthermore, we investigated Hantzsch 1,4-dihydropyridines (1,4-DHPs) synthesis and oxidation of 1,4-DHPs to their corresponding pyridines. The present approach offers a rapid methodology for accessing various pyridines with broad functional group tolerance and good yields using NH4VO3 catalyst as a green catalyst.

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