Chemistry Letters, Vol.48, No.6, 517-520, 2019
Heterogeneously Palladium-catalyzed Acceptorless Dehydrogenative Aromatization of Cyclic Amines
In this manuscript, we report an efficient heterogeneously catalyzed acceptorless dehydrogenative aromatization of cyclic amines under relatively mild conditions. In the presence of a supported catalyst Pd/LDH (LDH = layered double hydroxide), various kinds of structurally diverse cyclic amines including piperidines, tetrahydro(iso)quinolines, and indolines could be converted into the corresponding heteroarenes. Pd/LDH could be reused several times though its catalytic activity gradually declined due to the increase in the palladium particle size.