Abstract:
An improved onepot procedure, which condenses an aldehyde, α,βketoester and urea or thiourea to yield 3,4dihydropyrimidin2(1H)ones/thiones, has been developed by using tetraalkylammoniumstabilized palladium chloride as the catalyst. Experimental results showed that the methodology revealed high catalytic activity for the synthesis of Biginelli reaction products. In this paper, we utilized palladium chloridequaternary ammonium salt (PdCl_2/BTEACl) as a low catalytic loading, homogeneous, neutral, efficient and reusable catalytic system for the Biginelli reaction. This approach appears to be a mild, simple, practical and reusable green process for the preparation of Biginelli products. The catalytic system can be easily separated, and reused for seven times without a considerable change in its activity detected by HPLC.