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Bifunctional catalysis

A bridge from CO2 to methanol

Methanol — an important potential fuel and synthetic building block — can be produced via the hydrogenation of carbonates and carbamates using a pincer ruthenium(II) catalyst.

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Figure 1: Reversible hydrogen transfer for dimethyl carbonate hydrogenation by a Ru(II)–PNN pincer catalyst.

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Dixneuf, P. A bridge from CO2 to methanol. Nature Chem 3, 578–579 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.1103

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