Molecular iodine catalyzed transfer hydrogenation: reduction of aldimines, ketimines, and α-imino esters

P Bachu, C Zhu, T Akiyama

Index: Bachu, Prabhakar; Zhu, Chen; Akiyama, Takahiko Tetrahedron Letters, 2013 , vol. 54, # 30 p. 3977 - 3981

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Abstract

Recently, molecular iodine has attracted much attention as a catalyst for organic transformations because it is inexpensive, nonmetallic, and readily available. 8 and 9 The usefulness of molecular iodine is as a mild Lewis acid. Due to the mild Lewis acid character, Mannich-type reaction, 10a allylation reaction of allylsilane to aldehyde, 10b and aldimine, 10c and Michael reaction 10d were successfully achieved by means of iodine. The iodine catalyzed reduction of imines, ...