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Hydrogenolysis Goes Bio: From Carbohydrates and Sugar Alcohols to Platform Chemicals

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Past and present developments in hydrogenolysis reactions are highlighted, with special emphasis on the direct utilization of cellulosic feedstocks, to bridge currently available technologies and future biomass-based refinery concepts.
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In view of the diminishing oil resources and the ongoing climate change, the use of efficient and environmentally benign technologies for the utilization of renewable resources has become indispensible. Therein, hydrogenolysis reactions offer a promising possibility for future biorefinery concepts. These reactions result in the cleavage of C-C and C-O bonds by hydrogen and allow direct access to valuable platform chemicals already integrated in today's value chains. Thus, hydrogenolysis bears the potential to bridge currently available technologies and future biomass-based refinery concepts. This Review highlights past and present developments in this field, with special emphasis on the direct utilization of cellulosic feedstocks.

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Chemoselective conversion of biologically sourced polyols into chiral synthons

TL;DR: The chemoselective partial reduction of silyl-protected C6O6-derived polyols to produce a diverse set of oxygen-functionalized chiral synthons is described, providing highly improved syntheses of many C6On synthons as well as several previously undescribed products.
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MOF-Based Catalysts for Selective Hydrogenolysis of Carbon–Oxygen Ether Bonds

TL;DR: In this paper, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) were shown to catalyze hydrogenolysis of aryl ether bonds under mild conditions and showed that the MOFs orients the substrate near Mg2+ ions on the pore walls.
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Synergistic Interaction within Bifunctional Ruthenium Nanoparticle/SILP Catalysts for the Selective Hydrodeoxygenation of Phenols.

TL;DR: Ruthenium nanoparticles immobilized on acid-functionalized supported ionic liquid phases (Ru NPs@SILPs) act as efficient bifunctional catalysts in the hydrodeoxygenation of phenolic substrates under batch and continuous flow conditions.
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Efficient one-pot fructose to DFF conversion using sulfonated magnetically separable MOF-derived Fe3O4 (111) catalysts

TL;DR: In this article, a non-noble heterogeneous catalyst for one-pot conversion of fructose into DFF with extremely high yields was developed by a simple pyrolysis method using Fe-based metalorganic frameworks (MOF) as a template and sulfur powder as a dopant.
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Enhanced direct production of sorbitol by cellulose ball-milling

TL;DR: In this paper, an activated carbon supported ruthenium (Ru/AC) was used for the one-pot hydrolytic hydrogenation of cellulose and it has shown to be very active and selective for converting cellulose into sorbitol.
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