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Acceptorless Dehydrogenation of Nitrogen Heterocycles with a Versatile Iridium Catalyst
Author(s) -
Wu Jianjun,
Talwar Dinesh,
Johnston Steven,
Yan Ming,
Xiao Jianliang
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.201300292
Subject(s) - dehydrogenation , iridium , catalysis , combinatorial chemistry , chemistry , computer science , world wide web , organic chemistry
Gas up : A cyclometalated iridium complex is found to catalyze the dehydrogenation of various benzofused N‐heterocycles, thus releasing H 2 . Driven by as low as 0.1 mol % catalyst, the reaction affords quinolines, indoles, quinoxalines, isoquinolines, and β‐carbolines in high yields.