Acceptorless and base-free dehydrogenation of alcohols and amines using ruthenium-hydride complexes

• Main Authors: Muthaiah, Senthilkumar, Hong, Soon Hyeok
• Other Authors: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/98297; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/12337
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

An efficient, operatively simple, acceptorless, and base-free dehydrogenation of secondary alcohols and nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compounds was achieved by using readily available ruthenium hydride complexes as precatalysts. The complex RuH2(CO)(PPh3)3 (1) and Shvo’s complex (2) showed excell...