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Acceptorless Photocatalytic Dehydrogenation for Alcohol Decarbonylation and Imine Synthesis
Author(s) -
Ho HungAn,
Manna Kuntal,
Sadow Aaron D.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201203556
Subject(s) - decarbonylation , dehydrogenation , photocatalysis , imine , chemistry , alcohol , aldimine , organic chemistry , catalysis , alkyl , methanol , ethanol , amine gas treating , photochemistry
It has come to light : Renewed interest in conversions of highly oxygenated materials has motivated studies of the organometallic‐catalyzed photocatalytic dehydrogenative decarbonylation of primary alcohols into alkanes, CO, and H 2 (see scheme). Methanol, ethanol, benzyl alcohol, and cyclohexanemethanol are readily decarbonylated. The photocatalysts are also active for amine dehydrogenation to give N ‐alkyl aldimines and H 2 .