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From Ruthenium to Iron and Manganese—A Mechanistic View on Challenges and Design Principles of Base‐Metal Hydrogenation Catalysts
Author(s) -
Zell Thomas,
Langer Robert
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
chemcatchem
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.497
H-Index - 106
eISSN - 1867-3899
pISSN - 1867-3880
DOI - 10.1002/cctc.201701722
Subject(s) - catalysis , manganese , ruthenium , scope (computer science) , nanotechnology , combinatorial chemistry , chemistry , base metal , biochemical engineering , materials science , computer science , organic chemistry , engineering , metallurgy , programming language , welding
The development of new homogenous base‐metal catalysts for hydrogenation reactions is a rapidly expanding and evolving field of research, which has the potential to provide inexpensive and sustainable alternatives for atom economic reactions and possibly contribute additional tools for hydrogen storage applications. While tremendous accomplishments in terms of catalytic activity and substrate scope have been reported over the last years, the available mechanistic information on these reactions is often very limited. The current Concept article intends to summarize, categorize and analyze mechanistic information on iron‐based hydrogenation catalysts. In addition, we present the challenges that must be tackled in the future to develop more effective and mature catalyst systems. The primary focus of this work lies on iron‐based catalysts. However, manganese‐based hydrogenation catalysts have recently attracted significant interest and a remarkable progress in their development has been made. Available mechanistic information on manganese catalysts is compared to that on iron catalysts and basic similarities and differences are discussed.