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Inside Cover: Ruthenium and Formic Acid Based Tandem Catalytic Transformation of Bioderived Furans to Levulinic Acid and Diketones in Water (ChemCatChem 24/2015)
Author(s) -
Dwivedi Ambikesh D.,
Gupta Kavita,
Tyagi Deepika,
Rai Rohit K.,
Mobin Shaikh M.,
Singh Sanjay K.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
chemcatchem
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.497
H-Index - 106
eISSN - 1867-3899
pISSN - 1867-3880
DOI - 10.1002/cctc.201501288
Subject(s) - levulinic acid , formic acid , ruthenium , catalysis , chemistry , organic chemistry
The Cover shows a tandem catalytic transformation of bioderived furans to levulinic acid/diketones by using a simple ruthenium–amine catalyst and formic acid in water. In their Full Paper, Dwivedi et al. report how the synergy between the inherent properties of ruthenium–amine complexes as transfer hydrogenation catalysts and formic acid as a hydrogenating agent and a hydrolytic agent is important for the tandem catalytic transformation of several bioderived furans into open‐ring components (levulinic acid and diketones) in water. Time‐scaled NMR and UV/Vis spectrophotometry, and the isolation of important hydrogenated intermediates, correlates very well with the proposed reaction pathway and confirms the decisive role of the ruthenium catalyst and formic acid for the studied catalytic transformation. More details can be found in the Full Paper by Dwivedi et al. on page 4050 in Issue 24, 2015 (DOI: 10.1002/cctc.201501021).