A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal

Heterogeneous catalysis for transformation of biomass derived compounds beyond fuels: Synthesis of monoterpenoid dioxinols with analgesic activity




AuthorsAlexandra Torozova, Päivi Mäki-Arvela, Atte Aho, Narendra Kumar, Annika Smeds, Markus Peurla, Rainer Sjöholm, Ivo Heinmaa, Dina V. Korchagina, Konstantin P. Volcho, Nariman F. Salakhutdinov, Dmitry Yu. Murzin

PublisherElsevier BV

Publication year2015

JournalJournal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical

Volume397

First page 48

Last page55

Number of pages8

ISSN1381-1169

eISSN1873-314X

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.molcata.2014.10.023


Abstract

Catalytic synthesis of a dioxinol compound, (2S,4aR,8R,8aR)-4,4,7-trimethyl-2-phenyl-4a,5,8,8a-tetrahydro-4H-benzo[d][1,3]dioxin-8-ol, exhibiting analgesic activity was demonstrated over Fe-modified beta zeolite. During interactions between cis-verbenol oxide and benzaldehyde, two main reactions occurred. In the first reaction, namely isomerization of verbenol oxide both cyclopentenic hydroxyketone, oxetane as well as a cyclohexyl compound, (1R,2R,6S)-3-methyl-6-(prop-1-en-2-yl)cyclohex-3-ene-1,2-diol were formed. In the second parallel reaction the target compound was generated. The highest yield of the target compound was achieved in the reaction between verbenol oxide and benzaldehyde at their molar ratio of 1:133 with the bifunctional iron modified Fe-H-Beta-150 catalyst at 70 °C giving a much higher yield than reported earlier in the literature, being 46 mol-% at complete conversion of verbenol oxide.




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