Journal of Organometallic Chemistry

A mild and efficient rhenium-catalyzed transfer hydrogenation of terminal olefins using alcoholysis of amine–borane adducts as a reducing system

H Dong, H Berke

Index: Dong, Hailin; Berke, Heinz Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 2011 , vol. 696, # 9 p. 1803 - 1808

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Abstract

[ReBr2 (NO)(CH3CN)(PTA) 2](PTA= 1, 3, 5-triaza-7-phosphaadamantane) catalyzes the alcoholysis of ammonia–borane and amine–boranes and the catalytic transfer hydrogenations of various terminal olefins. Excellent yields were achieved at 70° C in isopropanol using tBuOK as a co-catalyst affording TOF values up to 396 h− 1.