An unusual chemoselective hydrogenation of quinoline compounds using supported gold catalysts

…, RS Ding, YM Liu, Y Cao, HY He, KN Fan

Index: Ren, Dong; He, Lin; Yu, Lei; Ding, Ran-Sheng; Liu, Yong-Mei; Cao, Yong; He, He-Yong; Fan, Kang-Nian Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2012 , vol. 134, # 42 p. 17592 - 17598,7

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Abstract

The pursuit of modern sustainable chemistry has stimulated the development of innovative catalytic processes that enable chemical transformations to be performed under mild and clean conditions with high efficiency. Herein, we report that gold nanoparticles supported on TiO2 catalyze the chemoselective hydrogenation of functionalized quinolines with H2 under mild reaction conditions. Our results point toward an unexpected role for quinolines in ...