1 Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, State Key Lab of Rare Earth Materials Chemistry and Applications, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China.
Aerobic oxidative N-dealkylation of a variety of aliphatic tertiary amines and anilines catalyzed by rhodium(III) tetra (p-sulfonatophenyl) porphyrin ((TSPP)Rh(III)) is achieved in aqueous solution using dioxygen as the sole oxidant.