Formal Intermolecular Hydroamination of Unbiased Olefins for Primary Amine Formation

• Main Authors: Yang, Yongsheng, Wong, Nurul Imma, Teo, Peili
• Other Authors: School of Materials Science & Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Hydroamination; Amines; Synthetic methods; Homogeneous catalysis; Alkenes
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/81329; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/40729
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

A Pd/Ir dual metal tandem catalyst system was found to be active in catalyzing the one-pot, two-step formal hydroamination of unbiased olefins such as 1-dodecene with an ammonia source to give branched primary amines in high yields of >85 % by using only 1 mol-% of the Ir catalyst. This is the fi...