166
. The
nucleophilic addition of another molecule to cyclohexylamine
165
to
166
affords cyclohexylidenecyclohexylamine
167
(Step 2, Scheme 72). Finally, stepwise disproportionation
followed by aerobic oxidative dehydrogenation of
167
affords
N
-cyclohexylaniline with regeneration of
165
. It appears that
oxygen acts as hydrogen acceptor in the aromatization step.
The authors postulate that successive oxidative aromatization
of
N
-cyclohexylaniline to diphenylamine proceeds in a
similar way as outlined in scheme 72.
Scheme 72. Possible mechanism for the tandem oxidation
protocol using Au-Pd/Al
2
O
3
catalysis
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