Metal??Free Catalytic Hydrogenation of Enamines, Imines, and Conjugated Phosphinoalkenylboranes

P Spies, S Schwendemann, S Lange…

Index: Spies, Patrick; Schwendemann, Sina; Lange, Stefanie; Kehr, Gerald; Froehlich, Roland; Erker, Gerhard Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 2008 , vol. 47, # 39 p. 7543 - 7546

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Abstract

Catalytic heterolytic splitting of dihydrogen had until recently been a domain of metal- containing systems, be it for example in the Fe or Fe/Ni hydrogenase enzymes [1] or the Noyori-type chelate amine ruthenium catalysts and many conceptually related systems.[2] Stephan et al. recently reported the reaction of dihydrogen with frustrated phosphane/borane Lewis pairs, some of which are quite active catalysts for the ...