Mesoporous carbon derived from vitamin B12: a high-performance bifunctional catalyst for imine formation

Bo Chen; Sensen Shang; Lianyue Wang; Yi Zhang; Shuang Gao

doi:10.1039/C5CC06179B

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Mesoporous carbon derived from vitamin B₁₂: a high-performance bifunctional catalyst for imine formation†

Bo Chen,^ab Sensen Shang,^ab Lianyue Wang,^a Yi Zhang^a and Shuang Gao*^a

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^a Dalian National Laboratory for Clean Energy (DNL), Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 457 Zhongshan Road, Dalian, China
E-mail: sgao@dicp.ac.cn

^b University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19A Yuquan Road, Beijing, China

Abstract

Mesoporous carbon derived from natural vitamin B₁₂ is applied for the first time in organic synthesis and exhibits exceptionally high dual activity for imine formation via the cross-coupling of alcohols with amines and the self-coupling of primary amines using molecular oxygen or air as the terminal oxidant.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C5CC06179B
Article type: Communication
Submitted: 23 Jul 2015
Accepted: 26 Oct 2015
First published: 26 Oct 2015

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Chem. Commun., 2016,52, 481-484

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Mesoporous carbon derived from vitamin B₁₂: a high-performance bifunctional catalyst for imine formation

B. Chen, S. Shang, L. Wang, Y. Zhang and S. Gao, Chem. Commun., 2016, 52, 481 DOI: 10.1039/C5CC06179B

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