title: Towards a sustainable synthesis of formate salts: combined catalytic methanol dehydrogenation and bicarbonate hydrogenation.
abstract: Formate salts are important chemicals widely used in everyday products. The current industrial-scale manufacture of formates requires CO at high pressure and harsh reaction conditions. Herein, we describe a new process for these products without the utilization of hazardous gases and chemicals. By application of ruthenium pincer complexes, a simultaneous methanol dehydrogenation and bicarbonate hydrogenation reaction proceeds, which provides a green synthesis of formate salts with excellent TON (>18,000), TOF (>1300 h(-1)), and yield (>90%).
authors.affiliation: Leibniz-Institut für Katalyse an der Universität Rostock, Albert-Einstein-Strasse 29a, 18059 Rostock (Germany).
authors.forename: Qiang
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Lipeng
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Samet
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gülak
authors.forename: Nils
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Rockstroh
authors.forename: Ralf
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Jackstell
authors.forename: Matthias
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Beller
keywords: dehydrogenation; formates; hydrogen acceptors; methanol; ruthenium