Adi E. Nako, Sarah J. Gates, Nicole Schädel, Andrew J. P. White and Mark R. Crimmin
Chem. Commun., 2014,50, 9536-9538
DOI:
10.1039/C4CC04484C,
Communication
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.
