Oxidative amidation of benzyl alcohol, benzaldhyde, benzoic acid styrene and phenyl acetylene catalyzed by HKUST-1

HKUST-1-Cu synthesized in the presence and absence of P-123 through the solvothermal method (Scheme. 1). After characterization using some different microscopic and spectroscopic techniques such as XRD, FT-IR, SEM, ICP, BET and TEM its catalytic activity was investigated in the oxidative coupling of benzyl alcohol, benzaldhyde, benzoic acid, styrene and phenyl acetylene with N,N-dialkylformamides for the preparation of N,N-dimethylformamides. Different derivatives of tertiary amides were synthesized in moderate to good yields in the presence of just ~0.28 mol% of this catalytic system. Reusability of the synthesized catalysts was examined and catalysts were reusable for 8 times without a significant decrease in optimized conditions [1, 2].