A dual-functional heterogeneous ruthenium catalyst for the green one-pot synthesis of biphenols?

Catalysis Science & Technology Pub Date: 2017-06-30 DOI: 10.1039/C7CY00919D

Abstract

A green one-pot synthesis of biphenols using O2 and H2 was achieved using a magadiite-supported Ru nanoparticle catalyst. This catalyst selectively promoted the oxidative coupling of phenols to diphenoquinones with O2, followed by the successive reduction of these diphenoquinones to biphenols using H2 in a single reactor.

Graphical abstract: A dual-functional heterogeneous ruthenium catalyst for the green one-pot synthesis of biphenols
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