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Catalytic dehydrogenation of secondary amines with cobalt schiff base complex-oxygen system

A Nishinaga, S Yamazaki, T Matsuura

Index: Nishinaga, Akira; Yamazaki, Shigekazu; Matsuura, Teruo Tetrahedron Letters, 1988 , vol. 29, # 33 p. 4115 - 4118

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Abstract

Abstract Catalytic oxidation of secondary aromatic amines using Co (salen)/O 2 in ethanol at 60 C leads to dehydrogenation of the amines affording the corresponding imines in high yield. A mechanism involving electron transfer from the substrate to cobalt (III) species is suggested.