Issue 23, 2011
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Chemical Communications

Direct reductive amination of aromatic aldehydes catalyzed by gold(i) complex under transfer hydrogenation conditions†

Ming Zhang,a   Hongwei Yang,a   Yan Zhang,a   Chengjian Zhu,*ab   Wei Li,c   Yixiang Cheng*a  and  Hongwen Hua  

* Corresponding authors

a State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
E-mail: cjzhu@nju.edu.cn
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b State Key Laboratory of Organometallic Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China

c School of Pharmacy, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing 2100, China

Abstract

The direct reductive amination of aromatic aldehydes has been achieved with excellent isolated yields (89–96%) using readily accessible Ph3PAuCl/AgOTf catalyst along with ethyl Hantzsch ester as hydrogen source under mild reaction conditions.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C1CC11201E
Article type
Communication
Submitted
28 Feb 2011
Accepted
30 Mar 2011
First published
03 May 2011

Chem. Commun., 2011,47, 6605-6607

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Direct reductive amination of aromatic aldehydes catalyzed by gold(I) complex under transfer hydrogenation conditions

M. Zhang, H. Yang, Y. Zhang, C. Zhu, W. Li, Y. Cheng and H. Hu, Chem. Commun., 2011, 47, 6605 DOI: 10.1039/C1CC11201E

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