New Ruthenium Complexes Based on Tetradentate Bipyridine Ligands for Catalytic Hydrogenation of Esters

Fangyuan Wang; Xuefeng Tan; Hui Lv; Xumu Zhang

doi:10.1002/asia.201600506

New Ruthenium Complexes Based on Tetradentate Bipyridine Ligands for Catalytic Hydrogenation of Esters

Chem Asian J. 2016 Aug 5;11(15):2103-6. doi: 10.1002/asia.201600506. Epub 2016 Jul 7.

Authors

Fangyuan Wang¹, Xuefeng Tan¹, Hui Lv^{2

3}, Xumu Zhang^{4

5}

Affiliations

¹ Key Laboratory of Biomedical Polymers of Ministry of Education & College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, 430072, China.
² 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.
³ 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.
⁴ 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.
⁵ Department of Chemistry, South University of Science and Technology of China, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518055, China. xumu@whu.edu.cn.

PMID: 27385062
DOI: 10.1002/asia.201600506

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.

Keywords: alcohols; esters; pyridine ligands; ruthenium; synthetic methods.