NDLI: Reaction-activated palladium catalyst for dehydrogenation of substituted cyclohexanones to phenols and H<sub>2</sub> without oxidants and hydrogen acceptors

Content Provider	Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
Author	Zhang, Jingwu Jiang, Qiangqiang Zhao, Xiaomei Dong, Yanli Liu, Renhua Yang, Dejun
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	It is widely believed that the dehydrogenation of organic compounds is a thermodynamically unfavorable process, and thus requires stoichiometric oxidants such as dioxygen and metal oxides or sacrificial hydrogen acceptors to remove the hydrogen from the reaction mixture to drive the equilibrium towards the products. Here we report a previously unappreciated combination of common commercial Pd/C and H2 which dehydrogenates a wide range of substituted cyclohexanones and 2-cyclohexenones to their corresponding phenols with high isolated yields, with H2 as the only byproduct. The reaction requires no oxidants or hydrogen acceptors because instead of removing the generated hydrogen with oxidants or hydrogen acceptors, we demonstrated it can be used as a cocatalyst to help power the reaction. This method for phenol synthesis manifests a high atom economy, and is inherently devoid of the complications normally associated with oxidative dehydrogenations.
Starting Page	4674
Ending Page	4680
Page Count	7
File Format	HTM / HTML PDF
ISSN	20416520
Volume Number	6
Issue Number	8
Journal	Chemical Science
DOI	10.1039/c5sc01044f
Language	English
Publisher	Royal Society of Chemistry
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Stoichiometry Oxygen Phenol Unappreciated Dehydrogenation Hydrogen Atom economy
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Chemistry

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Reaction-activated palladium catalyst for dehydrogenation of substituted cyclohexanones to phenols and H₂ without oxidants and hydrogen acceptors