Facile C-N bond cleavage of primary aliphatic amines by (salen)ruthenium(VI) nitrido complexes

Yunling Pan; Lin Cheng; Yi Pan; Wai-Lun Man; Shek-Man Yiu; Jianhui Xie; Kai-Chung Lau; Tai-Chu Lau

doi:10.1039/d2dt00600f

Facile C-N bond cleavage of primary aliphatic amines by (salen)ruthenium(VI) nitrido complexes

Dalton Trans. 2022 Apr 5;51(14):5404-5408. doi: 10.1039/d2dt00600f.

Authors

Yunling Pan¹, Lin Cheng², Yi Pan², Wai-Lun Man³, Shek-Man Yiu², Jianhui Xie¹, Kai-Chung Lau², Tai-Chu Lau²

Affiliations

¹ School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, People's Republic of China. jianhuixie@hfut.edu.cn.
² Department of Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong, P R China. bhtclau@cityu.edu.hk.
³ Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong 999077, People's Republic of China.

PMID: 35315483
DOI: 10.1039/d2dt00600f

Abstract

We report the first example of oxidative cleavage of the strong C-N bonds of primary amines by a ruthenium(VI) nitrido complex. The driving force for this very fast C-N cleavage reaction comes from the formation of stable NN after the initial coupling of the amine N and the nitrido ligand.