Organic Letters 2011-08-05

Ruthenium-catalyzed reductive amination of allylic alcohols.

Zeyneb Sahli, Basker Sundararaju, Mathieu Achard, Christian Bruneau

Index: Org. Lett. 13 , 3964-3967, (2011)

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Abstract

Straighforward access to various saturated amines from allylic alcohols and isostructural mixture can now be achieved in the presence of arene ruthenium catalyst featuring phosphinesulfonate ligand and a hydrogen donor.© 2011 American Chemical Society