Efficient and chemoselective hydrogenation of aldehydes catalyzed by well-defined PN3-pincer manganese(II) catalyst precursors: an application in furfural conversion

Sandeep Suryabhan Gholap; Abdullah Al Dakhil; Priyanka Chakraborty; Huaifeng Li; Indranil Dutta; Pradip K Das; Kuo-Wei Huang

doi:10.1039/d1cc04808b

Efficient and chemoselective hydrogenation of aldehydes catalyzed by well-defined PN³-pincer manganese(II) catalyst precursors: an application in furfural conversion

Chem Commun (Camb). 2021 Nov 9;57(89):11815-11818. doi: 10.1039/d1cc04808b.

Authors

Sandeep Suryabhan Gholap¹, Abdullah Al Dakhil^{1

2}, Priyanka Chakraborty¹, Huaifeng Li¹, Indranil Dutta¹, Pradip K Das¹, Kuo-Wei Huang¹

Affiliations

¹ KAUST Catalysis Center and Division of Physical Sciences and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia. [email protected].
² Department of Chemistry, College of Science, Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, Riyadh 11432-5701, Saudi Arabia.

PMID: 34693946
DOI: 10.1039/d1cc04808b

Abstract

Well-defined and air-stable PN³-pincer manganese(II) complexes were synthesized and used for the hydrogenation of aldehydes into alcohols under mild conditions using MeOH as a solvent. This protocol is applicable for a wide range of aldehydes containing various functional groups. Importantly, α,β-unsaturated aldehydes, including ynals, are hydrogenated with the CC double bond/CC triple bond intact. Our methodology was demonstrated for the conversion of biomass derived feedstocks such as furfural and 5-formylfurfural to furfuryl alcohol and 5-(hydroxymethyl)furfuryl alcohol respectively.