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A stable and practical nickel catalyst for the hydrogenolysis of C-O bonds
Cui, Xinjiang,Yuan, Hangkong,Junge, Kathrin,Topf, Christoph,Beller, Matthias,Shi, Feng
, p. 305 - 310 (2017/01/24)
The selective hydrogenolysis of C-O bonds constitutes a key step for the valorization of biomass including lignin fragments. Moreover, this defunctionalization process offers the possibility of producing interesting organic building blocks in a straightforward manner from oxygenated compounds. Herein, we demonstrate the reductive hydrogenolysis of a wide variety of ethers including diaryl, aryl-alkyl and aryl-benzyl derivatives catalyzed by a stable heterogeneous NiAlOx catalyst in the presence of a Lewis acid (LA). The special feature of this catalyst system is the formation of substituted cyclohexanols from the corresponding aryl ether.
