Fabricating Effective and Recyclable Cadmium‐based Coordination Polymer for Selective Synthesis of 1,5‐Benzodiazepines

Abstract

Metal coordination polymers are widely applied in the synthesis of heterocyclic compounds due to the advantages of highly dispersed metal active sites, low cost and strong designability. Herein, employing the 9‐benzyl‐3,6‐di(1H‐pyrazol‐1‐yl)‐9H‐carbazole (BPC) as a ligand, the cadmium‐coordinated polymer compound (Cd‐BPC) was facilely prepared by solvothermal method and characterized by energy dispersive spectrometer (EDS), flourier‐transform infrared spectroscopy (FT‐IR), scanning electron microscope (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and X‐ray photoelectron spectrometry (XPS). Employing the Cd‐BPC polymer as a catalyst, 1,5‐benzodiazepine derivatives were produced with relatively high yields through the reaction of o‐phenylenediamine with ketones, and o‐phenylenediamine with alcohols. Additionally, Cd‐BPC could be reused for at least 5 times without significant decrease.