Ruthenium Pincer??Catalyzed Cross??Dehydrogenative Coupling of Primary Alcohols with Secondary Alcohols under Neutral Conditions

…, B Gnanaprakasam, Y Ben??David…

Index: Srimani, Dipankar; Balaraman, Ekambaram; Gnanaprakasam, Boopathy; Ben-David, Yehoshoa; Milstein, David Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis, 2012 , vol. 354, # 13 p. 2403 - 2406

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Abstract

Abstract Cross-dehydrogenative coupling of primary alcohols with secondary alcohols to obtain mixed esters with the liberation of molecular hydrogen is achieved in high yield and good selectivity under neutral conditions, using a bipyridyl-based PNN ruthenium (II) pincer catalyst.