Abstract An efficient, operatively simple, acceptorless, and base-free dehydrogenation of secondary alcohols and nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compounds was achieved by using readily available ruthenium hydride complexes as precatalysts. The complex RuH 2 (CO)(PPh 3) 3 (1) and Shvo's complex (2) showed excellent activities for the dehydrogenation of secondary alcohols and nitrogen containing heterocycles. In addition ...
[Peet, Norton P.; Sunder, Shyam; Barbuch, Robert J.; Whalon, Michael R.; Huber, Edward W.; Huffman, John C. Journal of Heterocyclic Chemistry, 1989 , vol. 26, p. 1611 - 1618]
