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SUBMITTER: Weber S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6916632 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Advanced synthesis & catalysis 20191028 23
An efficient additive-free manganese-catalyzed hydrogenation of nitriles to primary amines with molecular hydrogen is described. The pre-catalyst, a well-defined bench-stable alkyl bisphosphine Mn(I) complex <i>fac</i>-[Mn(dpre)(CO)<sub>3</sub>(CH<sub>3</sub>)] (dpre=1,2-bis(di-<i>n</i>-propylphosphino)ethane), undergoes CO migratory insertion into the manganese-alkyl bond to form acyl complexes which upon hydrogenolysis yields the active coordinatively unsaturated Mn(I) hydride catalyst [Mn(dpr ...[more]