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Inside Cover: CC or CO Bond Cleavage in a Phenolic Lignin Model Compound: Selectivity Depends on Vanadium Catalyst (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 14/2012)
Author(s) -
Hanson Susan K.,
Wu Ruilian,
Silks Louis A. “Pete”
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201200720
Subject(s) - vanadium , selectivity , catalysis , lignin , chemistry , bond cleavage , cleavage (geology) , homogeneous , polymer chemistry , medicinal chemistry , organic chemistry , materials science , fracture (geology) , physics , composite material , thermodynamics
Vanadium complexes catalyze CC and CO bond cleavage reactions in lignin model compounds with air as the oxidant. In their Communication on page 3410 ff., S. K. Hanson, R. Wu, and L. A. Silks report the influence of the ligand framework of the vanadium catalyst on the selectivity of the bond cleavage, thus showing the potential of homogeneous catalysts for controlling selectivity in the aerobic oxidation of lignin. (Picture by Josh Smith, LANL Chemistry Division.)