New Insight into the Reactivity of Pyridine-Functionalized Phosphine Complexes of Ruthenium(II) with Respect to Olefin Metathesis and Transfer Hydrogenation
norbornene in the presence of trimethylsilyldiazomethane as the carbene source. The same compounds 4nx are also used as catalyst precursors in the transferhydrogenation of a series of ketone substrates using alcohol as the hydrogen source. For example, the hydrogenation of cyclohexanone is achieved in 99% yield within 45 s with only 0.01 mol (0.1 mol %) of the precatalyst RuCl2(Ph2PCH2pic)(PPh3)-trans-Cl (41a)