Expanding the scope of biomass-derived chemicals through tandem reactions based on oxorhenium-catalyzed deoxydehydration.
New modes of DODH: Oxorhenium compounds act as deoxydehydration(DODH)/acid dual-purpose catalysts to transform biomass-derived diol substrates into a variety of commodity chemical precursors. The power of this approach is highlighted by a tandem [1,3]-OH shift/DODH of 2-ene-1,4-diols and 2,4-diene-1,6-diols, and by a DODH/esterification sequence of sugar acids to unsaturated esters for the production of polymers and plasticizers.
Department of Chemistry University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720 (USA).
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D018533:Biomass; D002384:Catalysis; D019163:Reducing Agents / Q000737:chemistry; D012211:Rhenium / Q000737:chemistry*
D019163:Reducing Agents; C015428:perrhenate; D012211:Rhenium
biomass; deoxydehydration; rhenium; sugar acids; sustainable chemistry