Organic synthesis with the most abundant transition metal–iron: from rust to multitasking catalysts

S Rana, JP Biswas, S Paul, A Paik… - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
In industries and academic laboratories, several late transition metal-catalyzed prerequisite
reactions are widely performed during single and multistep synthesis. However, besides the …

Reduction of nitro compounds using 3d-non-noble metal catalysts

D Formenti, F Ferretti, FK Scharnagl, M Beller - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
The reduction of nitro compounds to the corresponding amines is one of the most utilized
catalytic processes in the fine and bulk chemical industry. The latest development of …

Iron catalysis in reduction and hydrometalation reactions

D Wei, C Darcel - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
The last two decades have seen an impressive improvement of the use of iron as a
fascinating and valuable alternative transition metal in homogeneous catalysis in terms of …

Earth-abundant 3d-transition-metal catalysts for lignocellulosic biomass conversion

Y Feng, S Long, X Tang, Y Sun, R Luque… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Transformation of biomass to chemicals and fuels is a long-term goal in both science and
industry. However, high cost is one of the major obstacles to the industrialization of this …

The golden age of transfer hydrogenation

D Wang, D Astruc - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
Hydrogenation is one of the most fundamental transformations in organic synthesis, and its
industrial applications span from fine chemicals to pharmaceuticals synthesis. 1− 3 Direct …

Iron catalysis in organic synthesis

I Bauer, HJ Knölker - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
The present review “Iron Catalysis in Organic Synthesis” covers the literature until the end of
June 2014 and represents a comprehensive update of a previous article published by Bolm …

Recent advances on heterogeneous non-noble metal catalysts toward selective hydrogenation reactions

Y Ren, Y Yang, M Wei - ACS Catalysis, 2023 - ACS Publications
Selective hydrogenation reactions provide a pivotal and promising strategy for upgrading
substances with unsaturated functional groups, in which supported non-noble metal …

Heterogenized cobalt oxide catalysts for nitroarene reduction by pyrolysis of molecularly defined complexes

FA Westerhaus, RV Jagadeesh, G Wienhöfer… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Molecularly well-defined homogeneous catalysts are known for a wide variety of chemical
transformations. The effect of small changes in molecular structure can be studied in detail …

Recent developments in the reduction of aromatic and aliphatic nitro compounds to amines

M Orlandi, D Brenna, R Harms, S Jost… - … Process Research & …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The reduction of the nitro group represents a powerful and widely used transformation that
allows to introducing an amino group in the molecule. New synthetic strategies for complex …

In Situ-Generated Co0-Co3O4/N-Doped Carbon Nanotubes Hybrids as Efficient and Chemoselective Catalysts for Hydrogenation of Nitroarenes

Z Wei, J Wang, S Mao, D Su, H Jin, Y Wang, F Xu… - Acs …, 2015 - ACS Publications
The earth-abundant nanohybrids Co0/Co3O4@ N-doped carbon nanotubes were fabricated
via an efficient thermal condensation of d-glucosamine hydrochloride, melamine, and Co …