Highly efficient hydrogenation of biomass-derived levulinic acid to γ-valerolactone catalyzed by iridium pincer complexes
作者:Wei Li、Jian-Hua Xie、Han Lin、Qi-Lin Zhou
DOI:10.1039/c2gc35650c
日期:——
A highly efficient catalytic method for hydrogenation of biomass-derived levulinic acid has been developed and the iridium trihydride complexes of PNP pincer ligands were found to be extremely active catalysts for this transformation, providing γ-valerolactone in high yields with TONs as high as 71â000.