Synthesis of diverse aryl-substituted amino propanes

Amines bearing diverse aryl substituents for potential utilities as energy and new materials have been synthesized from aziridine-2-carboxaldehyde and diverse aryl-containing substrates. At first two aryl groups were to yield (aziridine-2-yl)-1,1-diaryl-methane which was converted to 5-diarylmethyl oxazolidin-2-one as a synthetic intermediate. They were further reacted with another aryl group in the presence of methanesulfonic acid to yield 2,3,3-triarylpropylamine with the possible carbenium ion intermediate. In addition, this reaction with a second additional phenolic aryl group gave rise to the diversely substituted 3-(4-methoxyphenyl)-(2,3-dihydrobenzofuran-2-yl)methanamine derived from the intramolecular aziridine ring-opening reaction by hydroxy group at phenol.