• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.32 no.6
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• pp.1873-1878
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• 2011

Under solvent-free conditions and in one-pot, a series of 2-amino-4-aryl-3-cyano-6-(3,4-dimethoxyphenyl)-pyridines and 4-aryl-3-cyano-6-(3,4-dimethoxyphenyl)-2(1H)-pyridinones were prepared using 3,4-dimethoxyacetophenone, an aldehyde, malononitrile (or ethyl cyanoacetate), and ammonium acetate in the presence of 3-methyl-1-(4-sulfonylbutyl)imidazolium hydrogen sulfate $[HO_3S(CH_2)_4MIM][HSO_4]$ (a Br${\o}$nsted acidic ionic liquid) as the catalyst in very short reaction time. The preference for the formation of more stable tautomers was consistence with the theoretical calculation using the Gaussian 03 program at the B3LYP hybrid density functional level.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.31 no.9
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• pp.2633-2636
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• 2010

3-Acetyl-5-benzoyl-6-methyl-2-phenyl-4H-pyran-4-one has been subjected to condensation with a series of primary amines (ethylamine - octylamine) to clarify the proposed mechanism in our previous study. The reactions of the shorter amines of the series (ethylamine - butylamine) yielded unsymmetric pyridinone products, whereas the other amines (pentylamine - octylamine) yielded symmetrical pyridinones. The starting material and the products as well as the intermediates have been subjected to theoretical analysis by quantum chemical calculations at B3LYP/6-31G(d,p) level, which provided supporting data for the experimental findings.