@article{2bd3477f70204b0b9d8e87226f669c70,
title = "Nitrous Oxide as a Hydrogen Acceptor for the Dehydrogenative Coupling of Alcohols",
abstract = "The oxidation of alcohols with N2O as the hydrogen acceptor was achieved with low catalyst loadings of a rhodium complex that features a cooperative bis(olefin)amido ligand under mild conditions. Two different methods enable the formation of either the corresponding carboxylic acid or the ester. N2 and water are the only by-products. Mechanistic studies supported by DFT calculations suggest that the oxygen atom of N2O is transferred to the metal center by insertion into the Rh-H bond of a rhodium amino hydride species, generating a rhodium hydroxy complex as a key intermediate.",
keywords = "alcohols, catalysis, coupling reactions, dehydrogenation, nitrous oxide, rhodium",
author = "Gianetti, {Thomas L.} and Annen, {Samuel P.} and Gustavo Santiso-Quinones and Markus Reiher and Matthias Driess and Hansj{\"o}rg Gr{\"u}tzmacher",
note = "Funding Information: This work was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) and the ETH Z{\"u}rich. T.L.G. was supported by the ETH Z{\"u}rich Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, co-funded by the ETH Zurich-Marie Curie action for people (FEL-14 15-1). M.D. thanks the Deutsche Forschungsgemein-schaft (Cluster of Excellence UniCat) for funding. Funding Information: This work was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) and the ETH Z?rich. T.L.G. was supported by the ETH Z?rich Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, cofunded by the ETH Zurich-Marie Curie action for people (FEL-14 15-1). M.D. thanks the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Cluster of Excellence UniCat) for funding. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.",
year = "2016",
month = jan,
day = "26",
doi = "10.1002/anie.201509288",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "55",
pages = "1854--1858",
journal = "Angewandte Chemie - International Edition",
issn = "1433-7851",
publisher = "John Wiley and Sons Ltd",
number = "5",
}