Pincer ligands and corresponding ruthenium catalysts for green industrial uses
- Detailed Technology Description
- The subject technology is a new class of ligands and their corresponding ruthenium catalysts capable of catalyzing a variety of dehydrogenation reactions.
- *Abstract
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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 petrochemical 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.
- Country/Region
- USA
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