tert-Butyl hydroperoxide (TBHP)-mediated oxidative self-coupling of amines to imines over a α-MnO2 catalyst

Zhe Zhang; Feng Wang; Min Wang; Shutao Xu; Haijun Chen; Chaofeng Zhang; Jie Xu

doi:10.1039/C3GC42312C

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tert-Butyl hydroperoxide (TBHP)-mediated oxidative self-coupling of amines to imines over a α-MnO₂ catalyst†

Zhe Zhang,^ab Feng Wang,*^a Min Wang,^a Shutao Xu,^a Haijun Chen,^ab Chaofeng Zhang^ab and Jie Xu*^a

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^a State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, Dalian National Laboratory for Clean Energy, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
E-mail: wangfeng@dicp.ac.cn, xujie@dicp.ac.cn
Web: http://www.fwang.dicp.ac.cn

^b Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

Abstract

We here demonstrate a simple, efficient and eco-friendly protocol for the direct synthesis of imines from amines via a facile α-MnO₂ catalyzed-procedure at rt. Up to 13 benzylic, heterocyclic, and normal aliphatic imines were synthesized with 95–99% selectivity at 82–99% conversion.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C3GC42312C
Article type: Paper
Submitted: 10 Nov 2013
Accepted: 03 Jan 2014
First published: 07 Jan 2014

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Green Chem., 2014,16, 2523-2527

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tert-Butyl hydroperoxide (TBHP)-mediated oxidative self-coupling of amines to imines over a α-MnO₂ catalyst

Z. Zhang, F. Wang, M. Wang, S. Xu, H. Chen, C. Zhang and J. Xu, Green Chem., 2014, 16, 2523 DOI: 10.1039/C3GC42312C

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