ChemInform Abstract: Hydrosilanes Are Not Always Reducing Agents for Carbonyl Compounds but Can also Induce Dehydration: A Ruthenium-Catalyzed Conversion of Primary Amides to Nitriles.

Hydrosilanes Are Not Always Reducing Age

Hydrosilanes Are Not Always Reducing Agents for Carbonyl Compounds but Can Also Induce Dehydration: A Ruthenium-Catalyzed Conversion of Primary Amides to Nitriles

✍ Shiori Hanada; Yukihiro Motoyama; Hideo Nagashima 📂 Article 📅 2008 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 124 KB

## Abstract A practical procedure for production of nitriles is offered by the triruthenium carbonyl cluster catalyzed dehydration of primary carboxamides with hydrosilanes under neutral conditions. This is the first example that a transition‐metal‐catalyzed activation of Si–H bonds does not lead t