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Pincer ligands and corresponding ruthenium catalysts for green industrial uses

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The subject technology is a new class of ligands and their corresponding ruthenium catalysts capable of catalyzing a variety of dehydrogenation reactions.

*Abstract

Ethyl acetate is a compound with industrial significance used either as a solvent or a reaction intermediate.

Current means of producing ethyl acetate, however, rely on processes such as the esterification of acetic acid with ethanol, a procedure that requires the use of a petr​ochemical and expensive additional distillation steps to arrive at a solvent of the desired purity for industrial applications.

Researchers at KAUST are working on ways to make this esterification process greener and more efficient. That is how a new class of pincer­type ligands has been discovered.

This work has earned the first KAUST issued patent and is poised to move into industrial application.

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美国