Mild and Efficient Deoxygenation of Amine-N-oxides with BiCl₃/Indium System

Abstract

The BiCl₃/indium system was found to be a new reagent for deoxygenation of various amine-N-oxides to the corresponding amines in good to excellent yields under mild conditions.

Keywords:

• Bismuth
• chemoselectivity
• deoxygenation
• N-oxides

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

This work was financially supported by Korea University.

Notes

^a Isolated yields.

^b The products are commercially available and were characterized by comparison of their spectral data with authentic samples.