Table 3.

Iron-catalyzed dehydrogenation of amines to imines with extraction of H₂

Reaction conditions: 5 (0.5 mmol), cat. Fe-L₁@EGO-900 (8 mol%), t-BuOK (10 mol%), and mesitylene (2 mL) heated at 145 °C

^aYields of 6 was determined by GC using m-xylene as an internal standard. Yields shown within brackets are of isolated products