Issue 9, 2012
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Green Chemistry

Highly efficient hydrogenation of biomass-derived levulinic acid to γ-valerolactone catalyzed by iridium pincer complexes†

Wei Li,a   Jian-Hua Xie,a   Han Lina  and  Qi-Lin Zhou*a  

* Corresponding authors

a State Key Laboratory and Institute of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China
E-mail: qlzhou@nankai.edu.cn
Fax: (+86) 22-2350-6177

Abstract

A highly efficient catalytic method for hydrogenation of biomass-derived levulinic acid has been developed and the iridium trihydride complexes of PNP pincer ligands were found to be extremely active catalysts for this transformation, providing γ-valerolactone in high yields with TONs as high as 71 000.

Graphical abstract: Highly efficient hydrogenation of biomass-derived levulinic acid to γ-valerolactone catalyzed by iridium pincer complexes

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C2GC35650C
Article type
Communication
Submitted
30 Apr 2012
Accepted
22 Jun 2012
First published
27 Jun 2012

Green Chem., 2012,14, 2388-2390

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Highly efficient hydrogenation of biomass-derived levulinic acid to γ-valerolactone catalyzed by iridium pincer complexes

W. Li, J. Xie, H. Lin and Q. Zhou, Green Chem., 2012, 14, 2388 DOI: 10.1039/C2GC35650C

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