OD63 Mechanistic Insights for the Catalytic Transformation of Glycerol on a Rhodium Catalyst in Basic Media: a Combined Experiment-theory Approach

Thursday, June 9, 2011: 3:40 PM
Ambassador Ballroom 1 (Detroit Marriott Hotel at the Renaissance Center )
Florian Auneau1, Carine Michel1, Francoise Delbecq1, Catherine Pinel2 and Philippe Sautet3, (1)Ecole Normale Supériere de Lyon and CNRS, Université de Lyon, Lyon, France, (2)IRCELYON, CNRS Université de Lyon, Villeurbanne, France, (3)Institute of Chemistry, University of Lyon, Lyon, France
The combination between experiment and theory provides mechanistic insights in the catalytic transformation of glycerol on Rhodium in basic conditions, showing that the initial step is dehydrogenation leading to glyceraldehyde. Assistance by a neighboring alcohol function facilitates the OH activation step.

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