Xiuling Chen, Tieqiao Chen, Yongbo Zhou, Daoqing Han, Li-Biao Han and Shuang-Feng Yin
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2014,12, 3802-3807
DOI:
10.1039/C4OB00578C,
Communication
An efficient metal-free aerobic oxidative C–N bond cleavage of tertiary amines has been developed to construct N-heterocycles using molecular oxygen as the sole oxidant with high atom efficiency, in which all of the three alkyl groups in tertiary amines can be utilized and transformed into N-heterocycles.
