Ruthenium trichloride catalyses the homogeneous oxidation of secondary alcohols to ketones, primary amines to nitriles, and 2-aminoalkanes to imines by O2; this is the first example of a homogeneous catalytic oxidation of an amino-group.
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Tang et al. (1978) studied this question.
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