Polymer-Anchored Bifunctional Pincer Catalysts for Chemoselective Transfer Hydrogenation and Related Reactions

Shrouq Mujahed, Federica Valentini, Shirel Cohen, Luigi Vaccaro*, Dmitri Gelman

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Abstract

A series of polymer-supported cooperative PC(sp3)P pincer catalysts was synthesized and characterized. Their catalytic activity in the acceptorless dehydrogenative coupling of alcohols and the transfer hydrogenation of aldehydes with formic acid as a hydrogen source was investigated. This comparative study, examining homogeneous and polymer-tethered species, proved that carefully designing a link between the support and the catalytic moiety, which takes into consideration the mechanism underlying the target transformation, might lead to superior heterogeneous catalysis.

Original languageAmerican English
Pages (from-to)4693-4699
Number of pages7
JournalChemSusChem
Volume12
Issue number20
DOIs
StatePublished - 21 Oct 2019

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This research was supported by the ISF (Israel Science Foundation) Grant Nos. 917/15 and 1384/13. The authors declare no competing financial interests. The Università degli Studi di Perugia and MIUR are also acknowledged for financial support to project AMIS, through the program “Dipartimenti di Eccellenza-2018–2022”. This work was supported by the RUDN University Program “5-100”. The Lady Davis Fellowship Trust is gratefully acknowledged for the support and fellowship awarded to L.V. for his stay at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim

Keywords

  • cooperative catalysis
  • dehydrogenation
  • formic acid
  • pincer complexes
  • transfer hydrogenation

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