N, N-Dimethylformamide-stabilized ruthenium nanoparticle catalyst for β-alkylated dimer alcohol formation via Guerbet reaction of primary alcohols

Tatsuki Nagata; Kanji Okada; Ryota Kondo; Takashi Toyao; Ken-Ichi Shimizu; Takeyuki Suzuki; Yasushi Obora

doi:10.1039/d2ra02381d

N, N-Dimethylformamide-stabilized ruthenium nanoparticle catalyst for β-alkylated dimer alcohol formation via Guerbet reaction of primary alcohols

RSC Adv. 2022 Jun 6;12(26):16599-16603. doi: 10.1039/d2ra02381d. eCollection 2022 Jun 1.

Authors

Tatsuki Nagata¹, Kanji Okada¹, Ryota Kondo¹, Takashi Toyao², Ken-Ichi Shimizu², Takeyuki Suzuki³, Yasushi Obora¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Chemistry and Materials Engineering, Faculty of Chemistry, Materials, and Bioengineering, Kansai University Suita Osaka 564-8680 Japan obora@kansai-u.ac.jp +81-6-6339-4026 +81-6-6368-087.
² Institute for Catalysis, Hokkaido University N-21, W-10 Sapporo 001-0021 Japan.
³ Comprehensive Analysis Center, SANKEN, Osaka University 8-1 Mihogaoka, Ibaraki Osaka 567-0057 Japan.

Abstract

N,N-Dimethylformamide-stabilized Ru nanoparticles (NPs) provide a highly efficient catalyst for the Guerbet reaction of primary alcohols. DMF-modified Ru NPs were synthesized, and characterized by transition electron microscopy, and X-ray absorption spectroscopy, X-ray photoelectronspectroscopy, and Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy. The Ru NP catalyst was highly durable during catalytic reactions under external additive/solvent-free conditions.