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Elemental Sulfur-Promoted Aerobic Dehydrogenative Aromatization of Cyclohexanones with Amines
Zhen Wang1, Cheng Li1, Huawen Huang1
1Key Laboratory for Green Organic Synthesis and Application of Hunan Province, Key Laboratory of Environmentally Friendly Chemistry and Application of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan 411105, China.
Abstract:
An elemental sulfur-promoted aerobic dehydrogenation system for the access to N,N'-dialkyl-o-phenylenediamines and N-substituted 2-naphthylamines is reported herein. Readily available cyclohexanones and amines (especially alkylamines) are transformed smoothly to target products. Aromatic amines can be achieved from all aliphatic reagents under aerobic metal-free reaction conditions. Control reactions show that the combinational use of elemental sulfur and molecular oxygen is exceptionally essential for this dehydrogenative aromatizaiton.
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