Yttrium-catalysed dehydrocoupling of alanes with amines

Adi E. Nako, Sarah J. Gates, Nicole Schädel, Andrew J. P. White, Mark R. Crimmin
2014 Chemical Communications  
We report [Y{N(SiMe 3 ) 2 } 3 ] as a precatalyst for the 5 dehydrocoupling of sterically demanding amines with βdiketiminate stabilised aluminium dihydrides. While simple 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 10
doi:10.1039/c4cc04484c pmid:25011664 fatcat:le2wpq44jzfxbnz2evw722zwiy