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Hydration of nitriles using a metal-ligand cooperative ruthenium pincer catalyst.


ABSTRACT: Nitrile hydration provides access to amides that are important structural elements in organic chemistry. Here we report catalytic nitrile hydration using ruthenium catalysts based on a pincer scaffold with a dearomatized pyridine backbone. These complexes catalyze the nucleophilic addition of H2O to a wide variety of aliphatic and (hetero)aromatic nitriles in t BuOH as solvent. Reactions occur under mild conditions (room temperature) in the absence of additives. A mechanism for nitrile hydration is proposed that is initiated by metal-ligand cooperative binding of the nitrile.

SUBMITTER: Guo B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7020783 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Hydration of nitriles using a metal-ligand cooperative ruthenium pincer catalyst.

Guo Beibei B   de Vries Johannes G JG   Otten Edwin E  

Chemical science 20191007 45


Nitrile hydration provides access to amides that are important structural elements in organic chemistry. Here we report catalytic nitrile hydration using ruthenium catalysts based on a pincer scaffold with a dearomatized pyridine backbone. These complexes catalyze the nucleophilic addition of H<sub>2</sub>O to a wide variety of aliphatic and (hetero)aromatic nitriles in <sup><i>t</i></sup> BuOH as solvent. Reactions occur under mild conditions (room temperature) in the absence of additives. A me  ...[more]

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