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Towards a Sustainable Synthesis of Formate Salts: Combined Catalytic Methanol Dehydrogenation and Bicarbonate Hydrogenation
Author(s) -
Liu Qiang,
Wu Lipeng,
Gülak Samet,
Rockstroh Nils,
Jackstell Ralf,
Beller Matthias
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201400456
Subject(s) - formate , dehydrogenation , methanol , catalysis , bicarbonate , chemistry , pincer movement , yield (engineering) , organic chemistry , ruthenium , inorganic chemistry , materials science , metallurgy
Formate salts are important chemicals widely used in everyday products. The current industrial‐scale manufacture of formates requires CO at high pressure and harsh reaction conditions. Herein, we describe a new process for these products without the utilization of hazardous gases and chemicals. By application of ruthenium pincer complexes, a simultaneous methanol dehydrogenation and bicarbonate hydrogenation reaction proceeds, which provides a green synthesis of formate salts with excellent TON (>18 000), TOF (>1300 h −1 ), and yield (>90 %).