Issue 4, 2022

Dehydrogenative ester synthesis from enol ethers and water with a ruthenium complex catalyzing two reactions in synergy

Abstract

We report the dehydrogenative synthesis of esters from enol ethers using water as the formal oxidant, catalyzed by a newly developed ruthenium acridine-based PNP(Ph)-type complex. Mechanistic experiments and density functional theory (DFT) studies suggest that an inner-sphere stepwise coupled reaction pathway is operational instead of a more intuitive outer-sphere tandem hydration–dehydrogenation pathway.

Graphical abstract: Dehydrogenative ester synthesis from enol ethers and water with a ruthenium complex catalyzing two reactions in synergy

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Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
08 Dec 2021
Accepted
04 Feb 2022
First published
04 Feb 2022
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

Green Chem., 2022,24, 1481-1487

Dehydrogenative ester synthesis from enol ethers and water with a ruthenium complex catalyzing two reactions in synergy

S. Kar, J. Luo, M. Rauch, Y. Diskin-Posner, Y. Ben-David and D. Milstein, Green Chem., 2022, 24, 1481 DOI: 10.1039/D1GC04574A

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