Formic acid disproportionation into formaldehyde triggered by vanadium complexes with iridium catalysis under mild conditions in <i>N</i>-methylation

Abstract

Renewable HCO₂H disproportionation into CH₂O triggered by vanadium complexes with iridium catalysis under mild conditions in <italic>N</italic>-methylation is discovered. The gram-scale application of <italic>in situ</italic> generated CH₂O by HCO₂H disproportionation is demonstrated.