Ray Ritwika, Chandra Shubhadeep, Yadav Vishal, Mondal Prasenjit, Maiti Debabrata, Lahiri Goutam Kumar
Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Powai, Mumbai-400076, India.
Chem Commun (Camb). 2017 Apr 4;53(28):4006-4009. doi: 10.1039/c6cc10200j.
A ligand controlled catalytic system for the aerobic oxidation of 1° amines to nitriles and imines has been developed where the varying π-acidic feature of BIAN versus phen in the frameworks of ruthenium catalysts facilitates switchable selectivity.
