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Replacing Phosphorus with Sulfur for the Efficient Hydrogenation of Esters
Author(s) -
Spasyuk Denis,
Smith Samantha,
Gusev Dmitry G.
Publication year - 2013
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.201209218
Subject(s) - sulfur , catalysis , chemistry , sulfide , ethanol , organic chemistry , phosphorus , ethyl acetate
Catalyst tune‐up : A readily available, air‐stable amino–sulfide catalyst, [RuCl 2 (PPh 3 ){HN(C 2 H 4 SEt) 2 }], has been developed. This complex displays outstanding efficiency for the hydrogenation of a broad range of substrates with CX bonds (esters, ketones, imines), as well as for the acceptorless dehydrogenative coupling of ethanol to ethyl acetate (see scheme).