Bioinduced Room‐Temperature Methanol Reforming1. Issue 35 (15th July 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Heim, Leo E.; Thiel, Daniel; Gedig, Christian; Deska, Jan; Prechtl, Martin H. G.
• Is Part Of: Angewandte Chemie international edition. Volume 54:Issue 35(2015)
• Page Start: 10308
• Page End: 10312
• Publication Date: 2015-07-15
• Subjects: Chemistry -- Periodicals; 540
• DOI: 10.1002/anie.201503737
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1433-7851

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="main" xml:lang="en"> <title>Abstract</title> <p>Imitating nature′s approach in nucleophile‐activated formaldehyde dehydrogenation, air‐stable ruthenium complexes proved to be exquisite catalysts for the dehydrogenation of formaldehyde hydrate as well as for the transfer hydrogenation to unsaturated organic substrates at loadings as low as 0.5 mol %. Concatenation of the chemical hydrogen‐fixation route with an oxidase‐mediated activation of methanol gives an artificial methylotrophic in vitro metabolism providing methanol‐derived reduction equivalents for synthetic hydrogenation purposes. Moreover, for the first time methanol reforming at room temperature was achieved on the basis of this bioinduced dehydrogenation path delivering hydrogen gas from aqueous methanol.</p> </abstract>