Chemical Communications 2009-04-21

Chemoselective hydrogenolysis of tetrahydrofurfuryl alcohol to 1,5-pentanediol.

Shuichi Koso, Ippei Furikado, Akira Shimao, Tomohisa Miyazawa, Kimio Kunimori, Keiichi Tomishige

Index: Chem. Commun. (Camb.) (15) , 2035-7, (2009)

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Abstract

Direct conversion of tetrahydrofurfuryl alcohol, which is one of the biomass-derived chemicals, to 1,5-pentanediol was realized by chemoselective hydrogenolysis catalyzed by Rh/SiO(2) modified with ReO(x) species, and this reaction route gave higher yield than the conventional multi-step method.