Synthesis 2023; 55(04): 547-564
DOI: 10.1055/s-0042-1753053
short review

Acceptorless Dehydrogenation of Aliphatics, Amines, and Alcohols with Homogeneous Catalytic Systems

Min-Jie Zhou
a   The State Key Laboratory of Organometallic Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 345 Lingling Road, Shanghai 200032, P. R. of China
b   Shenzhen Grubbs Institute and Department of Chemistry, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Catalysis, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, P. R. of China
,
Guixia Liu
a   The State Key Laboratory of Organometallic Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 345 Lingling Road, Shanghai 200032, P. R. of China
,
Chen Xu
b   Shenzhen Grubbs Institute and Department of Chemistry, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Catalysis, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, P. R. of China
,
Zheng Huang
a   The State Key Laboratory of Organometallic Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 345 Lingling Road, Shanghai 200032, P. R. of China
c   School of Chemistry and Material Sciences, Hangzhou Institute of Advanced Study, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1 Sub-lane Xiangshan, Hangzhou 310024, P. R. of China
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We grateful acknowledge support from the National Basic Research Program of China (2021YFA1500100, 2021YFA1501700), National Natural Science Foundation of China (21825109, 21821002, 21732006, 22072178, K21211026), Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Catalysis (2020B121201002), Shenzhen Science and Technology Program (KQTD20180411143514543 and K20215006), K. C. Wong Education Foundation, Youth Interdisciplinary Team (JCTD-2021-11) (CAS), and Ningbo Municipal Bureau of Science and Technology (2019B10096).


Abstract

The dehydrogenation of saturated substrates is fundamentally essential for producing value-added unsaturated organic molecules both in academia and industry. In recent years, homogeneously catalyzed acceptorless C–C, C–N, and C–O bond desaturations have attracted increasing attention due to high atom economy, environmentally benign nature, and wide availability of the starting materials. This short review discusses the acceptorless dehydrogenation of aliphatics, alcohols, and amines by homogeneous catalytic systems based on two categories of reaction mechanisms: thermal transition-metal-catalyzed two-electron pathway and photoredox catalyzed or electrochemically driven one-electron pathway.

1 Introduction

2 Catalytic Acceptorless Dehydrogenation of Aliphatics

3 Catalytic Acceptorless Dehydrogenation of Amines

4 Catalytic Acceptorless Dehydrogenation of Alcohols

5 Conclusion



Publication History

Received: 27 July 2022

Accepted after revision: 19 September 2022

Article published online:
03 November 2022

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