Ruthenium chloride catalysed oxidation of tertiary amines to amine oxides with molecular oxygen

1 January 1983

journal article
research article
Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications

No. 24,p. 1530-1532
https://doi.org/10.1039/c39830001530

Abstract

Tertiary amines are catalytically oxidized with molecular oxygen in homogeneous solutions containing RuCl₃·xH₂O to afford as a major product the corresponding N-oxide, the first example of such an oxidation.

Keywords

TERTIARY AMINES
MOLECULAR OXYGEN
CORRESPONDING
RUTHENIUM
RUCL3
CHLORIDE
CATALYSED

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