Ruthenium Catalyzed N-Methylation of Aminoaranes Using Methanol
- 5 March 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Chemistry Letters
- Vol. 17 (3), 449-452
- https://doi.org/10.1246/cl.1988.449
Abstract
Methanol reacts with aminoarenes in the presence of a catalytic amount of ruthenium trichloride hydrate combined with tributylphosphite at 180 °C to give the corresponding N-methylaminoarenes in high yields.Keywords
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