Dehydrogenative ester synthesis from enol ethers and water with a ruthenium complex catalyzing two reactions in synergy
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We report the dehydrogenative synthesis of esters from enol ethers using water as the formal oxidant, catalyzed by a newly developed ruthenium acridine-based PNP(Ph)-type complex. Mechanistic experiments and density functional theory (DFT) studies suggest that... ...
