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Ruthenium(II) pincer complexes with oxazoline arms for efficient transfer hydrogenation reactions
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Ruthenium(II) pincer complexes with oxazoline arms for efficient transfer hydrogenation reactions

Tao Chen, Li-Peng He, Dirong Gong, Limin Yang, Xiaohe Miao, Jörg Eppinger and Kuo-Wei Huang
Tetrahedron letters, Vol.53(33), pp.4409-4412
15/08/2012
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tetlet.2012.06.041

Abstract

Catalysis Pincer Ruthenium Transfer hydrogenation
Well-defined PNNCN pincer ruthenium complexes bearing both strong phosphine and weak oxazoline donors were developed. These easily accessible complexes exhibit significantly better catalytic activity in transfer hydrogenation of ketones compared to their PN3P analogs. These reactions proceed under mild and base-free conditions via protonation–deprotonation of the ‘NH’ group in the aromatization–dearomatization process.

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