Replacing phosphorus with sulfur for the efficient hydrogenation of esters.
Catalyst tune-up: A readily available, air-stable amino-sulfide catalyst, [RuCl(2)(PPh(3)){HN(C(2)H(4)SEt)(2)}], has been developed. This complex displays outstanding efficiency for the hydrogenation of a broad range of substrates with C=X bonds (esters, ketones, imines), as well as for the acceptorless dehydrogenative coupling of ethanol to ethyl acetate.
Department of Chemistry, Wilfrid Laurier University, 75 University Ave. W., Waterloo, ON N2L3C5, Canada.
Denis
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Spasyuk
Samantha
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Smith
Dmitry G
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Gusev