“…Amine-CO2 reductive coupling was also performed using hydrosilane (R3Si-H) or hydroborane (R2B-H) as the reductant on metal (Cu, Fe, Ni, and Rh) [189][190][191][192][193] catalysts such as [Ni(μ-H)(dippe)]2 (dippe = 1,2-bis(diisopropylphosphino)ethane) [192] and Cu(iPr-NHC)(O t Bu) (iPrNHC) [193]. More recently, non-carbonyl or fully deoxygenated products, e.g., formamidines (RN = C(H)NR 2 ) and methylamines (R 2 NCH 3 ) were obtained at elevated temperature and pressure (Scheme 21) from o-phenylenediamines with RuCl 2 (dppe) 2 [194], as well as from primary and secondary amines with Ru(acac) 3 /triphos [195] or Ru(triphos)(tmm) [187], [Ru II (dmso) 4 Cl 2 ]/P( n Bu)(Ad) 2 [196], and Zn(iPrNHC)Cl [196] using H 2 and PhSiH 3 as reductants. Recently, reductive coupling of CO 2 with amines and o-phenylenediamines was achieved using organo-base (TBD) [197,198], iPrNHC [199,200], and proazaphosphatrane (VB Me ) [201] to produce formamides [196,199], formamidines [200], tertiary methylamines, and methylene diamines [198,201] using hydrosilane (PhSiH 3 ) or hydroborane (9-BBN) as reductants (Scheme 22).…”