An efficient ruthenium(IV) catalyst for the selective hydration of nitriles to amides in water under mild conditions

Eder Tomás-Mendivil; Francisco J Suárez; Josefina Díez; Victorio Cadierno

doi:10.1039/c4cc04058a

An efficient ruthenium(IV) catalyst for the selective hydration of nitriles to amides in water under mild conditions

Chem Commun (Camb). 2014 Sep 4;50(68):9661-4. doi: 10.1039/c4cc04058a.

Authors

Eder Tomás-Mendivil¹, Francisco J Suárez, Josefina Díez, Victorio Cadierno

Affiliation

¹ Laboratorio de Compuestos Organometálicos y Catálisis (Unidad Asociada al CSIC), Centro de Innovación en Química Avanzada (ORFEO-CINQA), Departamento de Química Orgánica e Inorgánica, IUQOEM, Universidad de Oviedo, 33006 Oviedo, Spain. vcm@uniovi.es.

PMID: 25019325
DOI: 10.1039/c4cc04058a

Abstract

A Ru(IV) catalyst able to promote the selective hydration of nitriles to amides in water, at low metal loadings and under mild conditions, is presented.