New Ruthenium Complexes Based on Tetradentate Bipyridine Ligands for Catalytic Hydrogenation of Esters

Authors :: Fangyuan Wang
Hui Lv
Xumu Zhang
Xuefeng Tan
Source :: Chemistry - An Asian Journal. 11:2103-2106
Publication Year :: 2016
Publisher :: Wiley, 2016.
Abstract: New bipyridinemethanamine-containing tetradentate ligands and their corresponding ruthenium complexes have been synthesized. The synthesized complexes performed well in the hydrogenation of a variety of esters with high efficiency (TON up to 9700) giving alcohols in good yields.

Subjects :: 010405 organic chemistry
Organic Chemistry
chemistry.chemical_element
General Chemistry
010402 general chemistry
01 natural sciences
Biochemistry
Combinatorial chemistry
Pyridine ligand
0104 chemical sciences
Ruthenium
Bipyridine
chemistry.chemical_compound
chemistry
Organic chemistry
Ton
Catalytic hydrogenation

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