title: Yttrium-catalysed dehydrocoupling of alanes with amines.
abstract: We report [Y{N(SiMe3)2}3] as a precatalyst for the dehydrocoupling of sterically demanding amines with β-diketiminate stabilised aluminium dihydrides. While simple fluorinated anilines readily undergo Al-H/N-H dehydrocoupling under thermal conditions, catalytic methods are required to achieve reasonable rates of reaction for ortho-substituted anilines or hindered aliphatic amines.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, South Kensington, London SW7 2AZ, UK. m.crimmin@imperial.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Adi E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Nako
authors.forename: Sarah J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Gates
authors.forename: Nicole
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Schädel
authors.forename: Andrew J P
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: White
authors.forename: Mark R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Crimmin