The emerging field of organometallic catalysis has shifted towards research on Earth-
abundant transition metals due to their ready availability, economic advantage, and novel …

Borrowing hydrogen is a process that is used to diversify the synthetic utility of commodity
alcohols. A catalyst first oxidizes an alcohol by removing hydrogen to form a reactive …

The conservation of our element resources is a fundamental challenge of mankind. The
development of alcohol refunctionalization reactions is a possible fossil carbon conservation …

The borrowing hydrogen (BH) principle, also called hydrogen auto-transfer, is a powerful
approach which combines transfer hydrogenation (avoiding the direct use of molecular …

Background Acceptorless dehydrogenation (AD) reactions can result not only in simple
removal of hydrogen gas from various substrates but also, importantly, in surprisingly …

The rise of green chemistry has drawn attention to bond construction strategies that promote
atom economy and avoid mutagenic reagents. 1 For example, both goals are achieved by …

The chemistry of amines, amides, and other nitrogencontaining compounds plays a central
role in the organic synthesis. In fact, the first synthesized organic compound was urea. 1 The …

Alcohols can be temporarily converted into carbonyl compounds by the metal‐catalysed
removal of hydrogen. The carbonyl compounds are reactive in a wider range of …

The quinoline ring system1-5 is present in a number of natural6 and synthetic products often
endowed with interesting pharmacological or physical properties. 7, 8 Consequently, a …

The alkylation of amines by alcohols has been achieved using 0.5 mol%[Ru (p-cymene) Cl2]
2 with the bidentate phosphines dppf or DPEphos as the catalyst. Primary amines have …