Oxidation of isopropylamine coordinated to ruthenium

[Extract] There has been much recent interest in the oxidative dehydrogenation of coordinated amines to the corresponding imines or nitriles. Many of these studies have involved ruthenium as the metal center, and although the formation of complexes containing the α,α'-diimine moiety has been relatively common, complexes containing coordinated simple monodentate imines have not been isolated