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Recent Advances in the Deoxydehydration of Vicinal Diols and Polyols
Author(s) -
Donnelly Liam J.,
Thomas Stephen P.,
Love Jason B.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
chemistry – an asian journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.18
H-Index - 106
eISSN - 1861-471X
pISSN - 1861-4728
DOI - 10.1002/asia.201901274
Subject(s) - vicinal , alkene , catalysis , diol , homogeneous , chemistry , substrate (aquarium) , scope (computer science) , biomass (ecology) , organic chemistry , combinatorial chemistry , computer science , mathematics , biology , ecology , agronomy , programming language , combinatorics
Deoxydehydration (DODH) is one of the most promising tools to reduce the oxygen content of biomass (sugars and polyols) and provide analogues of platform chemicals that are derived from fossil resources. This reaction converts a vicinal diol into an alkene and is typically catalyzed by high‐oxidation‐state metal‐oxo compounds in the presence of a stoichiometric reductant, with examples of both homogeneous and heterogeneous systems. This minireview will highlight the developments in this field over the past 5 years and focus on efforts to solve the problems that currently prevent DODH being performed on a commercial scale, including the nature of the reductant, substrate scope and selectivity, and catalyst recovery and expense.