Fabrication of Copper‐based Silica‐coated Magnetic Nanocatalyst for Efficient One‐pot Synthesis of Chalcones <i>via</i> A<sup>3</sup> Coupling of Aldehydes‐Alkynes‐Amines
Priya Yadav, Manavi Yadav, Rashmi Gaur, Radhika Gupta, Gunjan Arora, Pooja Rana, Anju Srivastava, Rakesh K. Sharma
Abstract
Abstract In the present work, we have synthesized bioactive and pharmacologically important chalcone motifs by employing green and efficient silica‐coated magnetically separable catalyst, Cu@DBM@ASMNPs. The highly proficient nanocatalyst proves its invincibility for the solvent‐free one‐pot synthesis of chalcone moieties by A 3 coupling of aldehydes‐alkynes‐amines in good to excellent yields. The fabricated Cu@DBM@ASMNPs was structurally and chemically analyzed by various techniques such as FT‐IR, SEM, TEM, VSM, ICP‐MS, ED‐XRF and XPS. The programmed catalytic protocol has been proceeded via isomerization‐hydrolysis reaction of aldehydes and terminal alkynes. The present strategy offered much greener and efficacious synthesis of chalcones by adding benefits such as solvent‐less synthetic protocol and much shorter reaction time. Other interesting and noteworthy features of this methodology are broad substrate scope, mild reaction conditions, and reusability up to seven runs without significant loss of its catalytic activity which renders it an environmentally friendly and remarkable protocol from industrial point of view.