title: New Ruthenium Complexes Based on Tetradentate Bipyridine Ligands for Catalytic Hydrogenation of Esters.
abstract: New bipyridinemethanamine-containing tetradentate ligands and their corresponding ruthenium complexes have been synthesized. The synthesized complexes performed well in the hydrogenation of a variety of esters with high efficiency (TON up to 9700) giving alcohols in good yields.
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Biomedical Polymers of Ministry of Education & College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, 430072, China.
authors.forename: Fangyuan
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Biomedical Polymers of Ministry of Education & College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, 430072, China.
authors.forename: Xuefeng
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Tan
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Biomedical Polymers of Ministry of Education & College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, 430072, China. huilv@whu.edu.cn.|Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Molecular Recognition and Function, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100190, Beijing, China. huilv@whu.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Hui
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Lv
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Biomedical Polymers of Ministry of Education & College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, 430072, China. xumu@whu.edu.cn.|Department of Chemistry, South University of Science and Technology of China, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518055, China. xumu@whu.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Xumu
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhang
keywords: alcohols; esters; pyridine ligands; ruthenium; synthetic methods