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Highly efficient one-pot multi-directional selective hydrogenation and N-alkylation catalyzed by Ru/LDH under mild conditions
Zhang, Sishi,Xu, Jie,Cheng, Hongmei,Zang, Cuicui,Sun, Bin,Jiang, Heyan,Bian, Fengxia
supporting information, (2020/03/30)
Atomic economy, non-toxicity, harmlessness and multidirectional selectivity advocated by green chemistry have increasingly become a hot and difficult research topic. Herein, we present a highly efficient, one-pot tandem and easy-to-operate method through which we could directly produce a broad range of multi-directional selective hydrogenated amines or N-alkyl aliphatic amines using aromatic nitro compounds as raw materials. Ru/LDH with characteristics of layered mesoporous structure, well dispersed small Ru nanoparticles and LDH stabilization to the Ru NPs was employed as the catalyst. It is remarkable that multi-directional superb chemoselectivity to aromatic amines, alicyclic amines as well as N-alkyl aliphatic amines could be achieved with excellent catalytic activity and recyclability by tuning reaction conditions over 5wt%Ru/LDH-2. Additionally, this catalytic system also exhibited attractive activity and multi-directional chemoselectivity in the hydrogenation of quinoline and its derivatives with solvents of different polarity. Chemoselectivity to 5,6,7,8-tetrahydroquinoline derivatives could reach as high as 95.6 %.
Asymmetric Reductive Amination of Ketones Catalyzed by Imine Reductases
Wetzl, Dennis,Gand, Martin,Ross, Alfred,Müller, Hubertus,Matzel, Philipp,Hanlon, Steven P.,Müller, Michael,Wirz, Beat,H?hne, Matthias,Iding, Hans
, p. 2023 - 2026 (2016/07/07)
Biocatalysis employing imine reductases is a promising approach for the one-step generation of chiral amines from ketones. The enzymes reported for this process suffer from low activity and moderate stereoselectivity. We identified a set of enzymes that facilitate this reaction with high to quantitative conversions from a library of 28 imine reductases. This enabled the conversion of ketones with ammonia, methylamine, or butylamine into the corresponding amines. Most importantly, we performed preparative (>100 mg) scale syntheses of amines such as (1S,3R)-N,3-dimethylcyclohexylamine and (R)-N-methyl-2-aminohexane with excellent stereochemical purities (98 % de, 96 % ee) in good yields.