Abstract
Anilines react with an array of tetraalkylammonium halides in the presence of a catalytic amount of a ruthenium catalyst together with SnCl2·2H2O in dioxane at 180°C to afford selectively N-monoalkylanilines in good yields.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This work was supported by the Basic Research Program of the Korea Science and Engineering Foundation (2000-2-12200-001-3) and grant of Post-Doc. (C.S.C.) Program from Kyungpook National University (2000).