Bifunctional organocatalysts for the conversion of CO2, epoxides and aryl amines to 3-aryl-2-oxazolidinones

• DOI: 10.1039/c9ob00224c
• Publication Date: 2019-03-11T10:04:26Z
• Authors: Ya-Fei Xie; Cheng Guo; Lei Shi; Bang-Hua Peng; Ning Liu
• Keywords: 01 natural sciences; 0104 chemical sciences

A route to synthesize 3-aryl-2-oxazolidinones is developed, which is achieved through a three component reaction between CO2, aryl amines, and epoxides with a binary organocatalytic system composed of organocatalysts and DBU (1,8-diazabicyclo[5.4.0]undec-7-ene).