Shell TA, Shell JR, Poole KA, Guetzloff TF. Microwave-Assisted Synthesis of N-Phenylsuccinimide.
JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION 2011;
88:1439-1441. [PMID:
22125340 PMCID:
PMC3224042 DOI:
10.1021/ed100983x]
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Abstract
A microwave-assisted synthesis of N-phenylsuccinimide has been developed for the second-semester organic teaching laboratory. Utilizing this procedure, N-phenylsuccinimide can be synthesized by heating a mixture of aniline and succinic anhydride in a domestic microwave oven for four minutes in moderate yields (40-60%). This technique reduces the reaction time as compared to the traditional synthesis by several hours, which allows the preparation to be achieved in a single organic chemistry laboratory period. This reaction is performed in the absence of solvent, is energy efficient, and is atom economical; therefore, it represents a "greener" preparation than the traditional synthesis of N-phenylsuccinimide.
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