Manganese-catalyzed hydrogenation, dehydrogenation, and hydroelementation reactions

K Das, S Waiba, A Jana, B Maji - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The emerging field of organometallic catalysis has shifted towards research on Earth-
abundant transition metals due to their ready availability, economic advantage, and novel …

Homogeneous manganese-catalyzed hydrogenation and dehydrogenation reactions

Y Wang, M Wang, Y Li, Q Liu - Chem, 2021 - cell.com
The development of novel and efficient earth-abundant metal catalysts as inexpensive and
sustainable alternatives to noble-metal catalysts is a rapidly expanding and evolving field of …

Phosphine free Mn-complex catalysed dehydrogenative C–C and C–heteroatom bond formation: a sustainable approach to synthesize quinoxaline, pyrazine …

K Das, A Mondal, D Srimani - Chemical Communications, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Herein the first sustainable synthesis of quinoxalines, pyrazines and benzothiazoles
catalysed by a phosphine free Mn (I) complex via acceptorless dehydrogenative coupling …

Phosphine‐free NNN‐manganese complex catalyzed α‐alkylation of ketones with primary alcohols and Friedländer quinoline synthesis

MK Barman, A Jana, B Maji - Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Herein, we report a very simple and inexpensive catalytic system based on Earth's abundant
transition metal manganese and on a bench‐stable phosphine‐free NNN‐pincer ligand for …

Advancements in multifunctional manganese complexes for catalytic hydrogen transfer reactions

K Das, MK Barman, B Maji - Chemical Communications, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Catalytic hydrogen transfer reactions have enormous academic and industrial applications
for the production of diverse molecular scaffolds. Over the past few decades, precious late …

Phosphine-Free Manganese Catalyst Enables Selective Transfer Hydrogenation of Nitriles to Primary and Secondary Amines Using Ammonia–Borane

K Sarkar, K Das, A Kundu, D Adhikari, B Maji - ACS Catalysis, 2021 - ACS Publications
Herein we report the synthesis of primary and secondary amines by nitrile hydrogenation,
employing a borrowing hydrogenation strategy. A class of phosphine-free manganese (I) …

Reversible interconversion between methanol-diamine and diamide for hydrogen storage based on manganese catalyzed (de) hydrogenation

Z Shao, Y Li, C Liu, W Ai, SP Luo, Q Liu - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
The development of cost-effective, sustainable, and efficient catalysts for liquid organic
hydrogen carrier systems is a significant goal. However, all the reported liquid organic …

Manganese catalyzed acceptorless dehydrogenative coupling reactions

S Waiba, B Maji - ChemCatChem, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Acceptorless dehydrogenative coupling (ADC) has emerged as a powerful tool in the
chemists' arsenal for the construction of various carbon‐carbon and carbon‐heteroatom …

Manganese catalyzed α-alkylation of nitriles with primary alcohols

A Jana, CB Reddy, B Maji - ACS Catalysis, 2018 - ACS Publications
The manganese (I) complex bearing a bidentate hydrazone ligand efficiently catalyzes the α-
alkylations of nitrile using primary alcohols as alkylating agents. α-Functionalized nitriles …

Manganese catalyzed α-methylation of ketones with methanol as a C1 source

A Bruneau-Voisine, L Pallova, S Bastin… - Chemical …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
The direct α-methylation of ketones with methanol under hydrogen borrowing conditions
using a well-defined manganese PN3P complex as a pre-catalyst was, for the first time …