Gen Li, Yongbing Liu and Haifeng Du
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2015,13, 2875-2878
DOI:
10.1039/C5OB00009B,
Communication
A catalytic metal-free hydrogenation of naphthylamines using B(C6F5)3 as a catalyst was successfully achieved under mild conditions for the first time to furnish a variety of tetrahydronaphthylamines in 88–99% yields.