Michael Gagne and co-workers at UNC used an iridium catalyst to reduce glucose to hexanes.
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Methanol from CO2 and H2
Posted by naturalproductman on November 8, 2011
Melanie Sanford and colleague have come up with a recipe to convert carbon dioxide and hydrogen gas to methanol using three different catalysts. The set up is interesting of course because it’s not your typical round bottom flask reaction – they used a pressure vessel containing the catalysts and added CO2 and H2.
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Aerobic oxidation with Cu
Posted by naturalproductman on October 3, 2011
Shannon Stahl and colleague have reported in JACS on a copper catalyzed aerobic oxidation of primary alcohols to aldehydes in acetonitrile. You have to admit this may be a better alternative to using Dess-Martin.
Posted in Copper, Green chemistry, Methodology, Transition Metal | Leave a Comment »
