Efficient Synthesis of 4‐Bromo‐N‐(1‐phenylethyl)benzamide, Arylation by Pd(0) Catalyst, Characterization and DFT Study

Abstract

The (S)-4-bromo-N-(1-phenylethyl)benzamide (3) was synthesized in excellent yield (93 %) by the reaction of 4-bromobenzoic acid (1) and (S)-1-phenylethanamine (2) with the coupling reagent titanium tetrachloride (TiCl 4 ). Further, the Pd(0) catalyst was employed to form (S)-4-bromo-N-(1phenylethyl)benzamide analogues (5 a-i) by reacting various aryl boronic acids with 4-bromo-N-(1-phenylethyl)benzamide (3) in moderate to good yields (62-89 %). Furthermore, DFT studies were carried out to compute optimized geometries, frontier molecular orbitals, polarizability (α), hyperpolarizability (β), MESP, reactivity descriptors, and NMR spectra. The measured NMR values matched the experimental NMR values well. In this series (5 a-i), we predicted that the highest energy difference between the HOMO-LUMO of compound (5 a) has 4.98 eV, resulting in a more stable compound, and compound (5 g) has the lowest energy difference between the HOMO-LUMO 4.63 eV, resulting in the least stable compound. Compound (5h) has the highest hyperpolarizability (β) value, exhibits a better non-linear optical (NLO) behaviour compared as compare to other synthesized compounds in the series.

Synthesis of 2-Ethylhexyl 5-Bromothiophene-2-Carboxylates; Antibacterial Activities against Salmonella Typhi, Validation via Docking Studies, Pharmacokinetics, and Structural Features Determination through DFT

“…The maximum solvability of the aryl boronic acid in 1,4-dioxane and water could be the root of the higher yield [18,19]. The maximum and minimum yield of thiophene analogs based on electron withdrawing and electron donating effects are also noteworthy [22]. It was noted that 4A showed a maximum yield (79.1%) with the electron-donating group while 4D showed a minimum yield (60.7%) due to the existence of an electronwithdrawing group among the thiophene analogs (Schemes 2 and 3).…”