JOURNAL 780


Organic Communications
VOLUME & ISSUE
Year: 2016 Issue: 1 January-March
PAGES
p.9 - 14
STATISTICS
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AUTHORS
    Adi Wolfson, Hamdy Abu-Zaed and Dorith Tavor
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ABSTRACT


Three representative carbonyl compounds were efficiently hydrogenated in a glycerol-triac etin e or glycerol-tributyrin mixture. The addition of triacetin to glycerol favorably altered the polarity of the reaction mixture, thereby increasing the solubility of reactants and, in turn, reactant conversion rates. Maximum conversion was detected in an 80%-20% a glycerol-triacetin mixture ( 80 :2 0 ) in the presence of a Ru(p-cymene)Cl 2-dimer catalyst.

KEYWORDS
  • Glycerol
  • triacetin
  • green chemistry and sustainable solvent