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Chem Commun (Camb)
; 60(23): 3142-3145, 2024 Mar 14.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-38328819
ABSTRACT
Newly developed amine functionalized NHC-supported CoIII-complexes have been identified as highly effective bifunctional catalysts for the α-alkylation of nitriles using a plethora of alcohols, ranging from aliphatic to aromatic and intriguingly, also secondary ones. Comparison of their activities with the non-bifunctional analogues uncovered their extremely high activities although possessing the high-valent CoIII-center due to metal-ligand cooperativity, which has been established by an array of control experiments.