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Tuesday, 23 September 2014

Acceptorless dehydrogenative coupling of primary alcohols to esters by heterogeneous Pt catalysts

Catal. Sci. Technol., 2014, 4,3631-3635
DOI: 10.1039/C4CY00979G, Communication
Sondomoyee Konika Moromi, S. M. A. Hakim Siddiki, Md. Ayub Ali, Kenichi Kon, Ken-ichi Shimizu
Pt/SnO2 is presented as the first example of a reusable heterogeneous catalyst for acceptorless dehydrogenative coupling of primary alcohols to esters under additive-free and solvent-free conditions.



 Supported platinum catalysts have been studied for the acceptor-free dehydrogenative 
coupling of primary alcohols to esters in the liquid phase under solvent-free conditions in N2 at 180 °C. 
The activity depends on the support material, and Pt-loaded SnO2 (Pt/SnO2) gives the highest activity. Pt/SnO2 shows higher activity than various transition metals
 (Ir, Re, Ru, Rh, Pd, Ag, Co, Ni, Cu) loaded on SnO2. The Pt/SnO2  
catalyst (1 mol%) selectively converted various primary alcohols to their corresponding esters in moderate to 
high isolated yield (53–91%). This is the first example of reusable heterogeneous catalysts for the acceptor-free dehydrogenative coupling of primary alcohols to esters 
under additive-free and solvent-free conditions. Mechanistic and infrared
 (IR) studies are also shown to discuss the reaction pathway and a possible role of the SnO2 support as Lewis acid sites that activate carbonyl groups of adsorbed aldehyde intermediates.

Acceptorless dehydrogenative coupling of primary alcohols to esters by heterogeneous Pt catalysts


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Corresponding authors
a
Catalysis Research Center, Hokkaido University, N-21, W-10, Sapporo 001-0021, Japan 
E-mail: kshimizu@cat.hokudai.ac.jp;
Fax: +81 11 706 9163
b
Elements Strategy Initiative for Catalysts and Batteries, Kyoto University, Katsura, Kyoto 615-8520, Japan
Catal. Sci. Technol., 2014,4, 3631-3635

DOI: 10.1039/C4CY00979G


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