Ruthenium catalyst to carry out a cross coupling of an aryl amine with a phenyl boronate

Ruthenium-Catalyzed Carbon−Carbon Bond Formation via the Cleavage of an Unreactive Aryl Carbon−Nitrogen Bond in Aniline Derivatives with Organoboronates

Satoshi Ueno, Naoto Chatani, and FumitoshiKakiuchi

Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, 3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 223-8522, Japan, and Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan

J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2007, 129 (19), pp 6098–6099

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ja0713431

 Ueno, Chatani and Kakiuchi used a ruthenium catalyst to carry out a cross coupling of an aryl amine with a phenyl boronate. What is remarkable is the fact that the transition metal did oxidative addition to an aryl-nitrogen bond

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ja0713431