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Replacing phosphorus with sulfur for the efficient hydrogenation of esters.

Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) (2013-01-29)
Denis Spasyuk, Samantha Smith, Dmitry G Gusev
ABSTRACT

Catalyst tune-up: A readily available, air-stable amino-sulfide catalyst, [RuCl(2)(PPh(3)){HN(C(2)H(4)SEt)(2)}], has been developed. This complex displays outstanding efficiency for the hydrogenation of a broad range of substrates with C=X bonds (esters, ketones, imines), as well as for the acceptorless dehydrogenative coupling of ethanol to ethyl acetate.

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Dichlorotriphenylphosphine[bis(2-(ethylthio)ethyl)amine]ruthenium(II), 97%