Novel ruthenium-terpyridyl complex for direct oxidation of amines to nitriles

Liliana Cristian; Simona Nica; Octavian D. Pavel; Constantin Mihailciuc; Valer Almasan; Simona M. Coman; Christopher Hardacre; Vasile I. Parvulescu

doi:10.1039/c3cy00209h

Novel ruthenium-terpyridyl complex for direct oxidation of amines to nitriles

Liliana Cristian^*, Simona Nica, Octavian D. Pavel, Constantin Mihailciuc, Valer Almasan, Simona M. Coman, Christopher Hardacre, Vasile I. Parvulescu

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School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

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Abstract

High catalytic activity and selectivity has been demonstrated for the oxidation of both aliphatic and aromatic amines to nitriles under benign conditions with dioxygen or air using the Ru2Cl4(az-tpy)(2) complex. The conversion was found to be strongly influenced by the alkyl chain length of the reactant with shorter chain amines found to have lower conversions than those with longer chains. Importantly, by using the ruthenium terpyridine complex functionalized with azulenyl moiety at the 4 position of central pyridine core provided a much higher reactivity catalyst compared with a series of ruthenium terpyridine-based ligand complexes reported. Mechanistic studies using deuterated benzylamine demonstrated the importance of RuOH in this reaction.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2646-2653
Number of pages	8
Journal	CATALYSIS SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Volume	3
Issue number	10
Early online date	12 Jul 2013
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1039/c3cy00209h
Publication status	Published - Oct 2013

Keywords

MOLECULAR-OXYGEN
HETEROGENEOUS OXIDATION
CATALYTIC-ACTIVITY
AEROBIC OXIDATION
DEHYDROGENATION
CONVERSION
ALCOHOLS
ALDEHYDES
SYSTEM
AMIDES

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Cristian, L., Nica, S., Pavel, O. D., Mihailciuc, C., Almasan, V., Coman, S. M., ... Parvulescu, V. I. (2013). Novel ruthenium-terpyridyl complex for direct oxidation of amines to nitriles. CATALYSIS SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, 3(10), 2646-2653. https://doi.org/10.1039/c3cy00209h

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