@article{f2ea037642db4f2eb098e47dafe90cc5,
title = "Homogeneous Reforming of Aqueous Ethylene Glycol to Glycolic Acid and Pure Hydrogen Catalyzed by Pincer-Ruthenium Complexes Capable of Metal–Ligand Cooperation",
abstract = "Glycolic acid is a useful and important α-hydroxy acid that has broad applications. Herein, the homogeneous ruthenium catalyzed reforming of aqueous ethylene glycol to generate glycolic acid as well as pure hydrogen gas, without concomitant CO2 emission, is reported. This approach provides a clean and sustainable direction to glycolic acid and hydrogen, based on inexpensive, readily available, and renewable ethylene glycol using 0.5 mol % of catalyst. In-depth mechanistic experimental and computational studies highlight key aspects of the PNNH-ligand framework involved in this transformation.",
keywords = "ethylene glycol, glycolic acid, homogeneous catalysis, hydrogen, sustainable chemistry",
author = "Zou, {You Quan} and {von Wolff}, Niklas and Michael Rauch and Moran Feller and Zhou, {Quan Quan} and Aviel Anaby and Yael Diskin-Posner and Shimon, {Linda J.W.} and Liat Avram and Yehoshoa Ben-David and David Milstein",
note = "Funding Information: D.M. holds the Israel Matz Professorial Chair of Organic Chemistry. Y.‐Q.Z. acknowledges the Sustainability and Energy Research Initiative (SAERI) of Weizmann Institute of Science for a research fellowship. N.v.W. is supported by the Foreign Postdoctoral Fellowship Program of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. M.R. acknowledges the Zuckerman STEM Leadership Program for a research fellowship. N.v.W and M.R. thank Dr. Mark Iron (department of chemical research support) for fruitful discussions regarding the DFT calculations. Computations were performed using HPC resources from GENCI‐CINES (Grant 2019AP010811227). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020 Wiley-VCH GmbH",
year = "2021",
month = mar,
day = "8",
doi = "10.1002/chem.202005450",
language = "English",
volume = "27",
pages = "4715--4722",
journal = "Chemistry - A European Journal",
issn = "0947-6539",
publisher = "Wiley-VCH Verlag",
number = "14",
}