Recent advances in soluble ruthenium(0) nanocatalysts and their reactivity

Reshi, NUD and Samuelson, AG (2020) Recent advances in soluble ruthenium(0) nanocatalysts and their reactivity. In: Applied Catalysis A: General, 598 .

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Abstract

Metal nanoparticles exhibit unusual properties different from metal complexes and heterogeneous metals and hence draw considerable attention for applications in catalysis, magnetism, medicine, optoelectronics, and sensors. Herein we present an overview of the recent progress in catalysis using soluble ruthenium nanocatalysts (colloids). These nanocatalysts have been widely used for catalyzing the hydrogenation of various substrates particularly arenes due to the milder conditions and the unique selectivities achieved compared to those exhibited by classical heterogeneous catalysts. Ru(0) colloids have been also examined for catalyzing many different reactions including transfer hydrogenation, dehydrogenation, coupling reactions and CsbndH activation, etc. Although in many of these transformations Ru(0) nanocatalysts exhibit high activities, there remain several challenges such as recovery of the soluble catalyst, catalysis by leached molecular clusters, and asymmetric catalysis with high enantioselectivity. © 2020 Elsevier B.V.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Applied Catalysis A: General
Publisher:	Elsevier
Additional Information:	The copyright of this article belongs to Elsevier
Keywords:	Hydrogenation; Metal complexes; Metal drawing; Metal nanoparticles; Nanocatalysts; Nanomagnetics; Ruthenium, Asymmetric catalysis; Coupling reaction; Heterogeneous catalyst; High enantioselectivity; Molecular clusters; Soluble catalysts; Transfer hydrogenations; Various substrates, Sols
Department/Centre:	Division of Chemical Sciences > Inorganic & Physical Chemistry
Date Deposited:	12 Aug 2020 08:52
Last Modified:	12 Aug 2020 08:52
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/65420

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