Transition-metal complex-catalyzed reduction of amides with hydrosilanes: a facile transformation of amides to amines

✍ Scribed by Mamoru Igarashi; Takamasa Fuchikami

• Book ID: 104230125
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 70 KB
• Volume: 42
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0040-4039
• DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4039(01)00039-9

✦ Synopsis

The reaction of amides with hydrosilanes is catalyzed by a variety of transition-metal complexes in the presence or absence of halides and amines as co-catalysts to afford the corresponding amines in good yields.