Direct chemoselective reduction of plant oils using silane catalysed by Rh(iii) complexes at ambient temperature

We report here a rare example of direct and chemoselective catalytic reduction of various plant oils to unsaturated fatty alcohols and glycerol. The selective reduction process is achieved using 0.5 mol% of a rhodium complex and diphenylsilane at room temperature without using any solvent producing...

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Autores: Prieto Pascual, Unai, Bustos Rosas, Itxaso, Freixa Fernández, Zoraida, Kumar, Amit, Huertos Mansilla, Miguel Angel
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Institución:Universidad del País Vasco
Repositorio:Addi. Archivo Digital para la Docencia y la Investigación
OAI Identifier:oai:addi.ehu.eus:10810/71385
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10810/71385
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:plant oils
fatty alcohols
rhodium (III)
catalysis
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Sumario:We report here a rare example of direct and chemoselective catalytic reduction of various plant oils to unsaturated fatty alcohols and glycerol. The selective reduction process is achieved using 0.5 mol% of a rhodium complex and diphenylsilane at room temperature without using any solvent producing a mixture of unsaturated fatty alcohols in yields >90%. We also observed that the selectivity of the reduction process (C[double bond, length as m-dash]C vs. ester) depends on the nature of silane.