RT Journal Article T1 Copper-Induced Ammonia N-H Functionalization A1 Álvarez, María A1 Álvarez, Eleuterio A1 Romero Fructos-Vázquez, Manuel A1 Urbano Baena, Juan A1 Pérez Romero, Pedro José AB The activation of ammonia has been achieved with the aid of the TpMsCu core (TpMs = hydrotris(3-mesityl-pyrazolyl)borate). Complexes of the general composition TpMsCu(amine) (1–4) including the ammonia adduct TpMsCu(NH3) (1) have been synthesized and fully spectroscopical- and structurally characterized. Coordinated ammonia in 1 has been reacted with Ph3CPF6 yielding TpMsCu(NH2CPh3) (5) as a result of N–H cleavage and N–C bond formation. In a parallel manner the catalytic functionalization of ammonia with ethyl diazoacetate leading to glycinate derivatives has been developed with TpMsCu(THF) as the catalyst, in the first example of this transformation with ammonia and a copper-based system. PB Royal Society of Chemistry SN 1477-9226 SN 1477-9234 (electrónico) YR 2016 FD 2016 LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/16230 UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/16230 LA eng NO Álvarez, M., Álvarez, E., Fructos, M. R., Urbano, J., & Pérez, P. J. (2016). Copper-induced ammonia N–H functionalization. Dalton Transactions, 45(37), 14628–14633. https://doi.org/10.1039/c5dt04972e NO We thank Prof. Kurt Mereiter for helpful discussions. Support for this work was provided by the MINECO (CTQ2014-52769-C3-1-R), and the Junta de Andalucia (P10-FQM-06292). MA thanks MINECO for a FPI fellowship. DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva RD 30 may 2026