Transition metals-catalyzed amination of biomass feedstocks for sustainable construction of N-heterocycles

Q Yan, X Wu, H Jiang, H Wang, F Xu, H Li… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2024 - Elsevier
Transition metals, which are of diversity in their bonding orbitals, have a variety of significant
oxidation states and more complex chemical properties compared to the main group metals …

Sustainable production of levulinic acid and its derivatives for fuel additives and chemicals: progress, challenges, and prospects

M Sajid, U Farooq, G Bary, MM Azim, X Zhao - Green Chemistry, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Levulinic acid (LA) is one of the most promising biomass-derived platform chemicals owing
to its wider convertibility to a large number of commodity chemicals. Numerous LA …

Key Green Chemistry research areas from a pharmaceutical manufacturers' perspective revisited

MC Bryan, PJ Dunn, D Entwistle, F Gallou… - Green …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
In 2007 the members of the ACS Green Chemistry Institute® Pharmaceutical Roundtable
assembled a list of key green chemistry research areas to both identify transformations that …

Sustainable access to renewable N-containing chemicals from reductive amination of biomass-derived platform compounds

J He, L Chen, S Liu, K Song, S Yang, A Riisager - Green Chemistry, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Nitrogen-containing compounds are pivotal building blocks with extensive application in the
manufacture of pharmaceuticals, polymer materials, agrochemicals and organic synthesis …

Production of primary amines by reductive amination of biomass‐derived aldehydes/ketones

G Liang, A Wang, L Li, G Xu, N Yan… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Transformation of biomass into valuable nitrogen‐containing compounds is highly desired,
yet limited success has been achieved. Here we report an efficient catalyst system, partially …

Conversion of levulinic acid and alkyl levulinates into biofuels and high-value chemicals

L Yan, Q Yao, Y Fu - Green Chemistry, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Levulinic acid (LA) is one of the most important biomass-derived platform molecules and can
be produced from both C5 and C6 carbohydrates via tandem dehydration and hydrolysis …

Deoxygenative functionalizations of aldehydes, ketones and carboxylic acids

J Li, CY Huang, CJ Li - Angewandte Chemie, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The simple and efficient conversion of carbonyl compounds into functionalized alkanes via
deoxygenation is highly enabling in chemical synthesis. This Review covers the recent …

Cycloamination strategies for renewable N-heterocycles

H Li, H Guo, Z Fang, TM Aida, RL Smith - Green Chemistry, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Biomass resources have infinite possibilities for introducing nitrogen, sulfur, or phosphorus
heteroatoms into their structures by virtue of controllable carbon–heteroatom bond …

Valorization of levulinic acid over non-noble metal catalysts: challenges and opportunities

Z Xue, Q Liu, J Wang, T Mu - Green Chemistry, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Levulinic acid (LA), easily derived from cellulose via an acid catalytic process, is an
attractive biomass-derived platform chemical which can be converted into various valuable …

Ambient Reductive Amination of Levulinic Acid to Pyrrolidones over Pt Nanocatalysts on Porous TiO2 Nanosheets

C Xie, J Song, H Wu, Y Hu, H Liu, Z Zhang… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Construction of N-substituted pyrrolidones from biomass-derived levulinic acid (LA) via
reductive amination is a highly attractive route for biomass valorization. However, realizing …