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Homogeneous catalysis for sustainable energy : hydrogen and methanol economies, fuels from biomass, and related topics

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02/11/2021
Author
Kumar, Amit
Daw, Prosenjit
Milstein, David
Funder
The Leverhulme Trust
Grant ID
ECF-2019-161
Keywords
QD Chemistry
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Abstract
As the world pledges to significantly cut carbon emissions, the demand for sustainable and clean energy has now become more important than ever. This includes both production and storage of energy carriers, a majority of which involve catalytic reactions. This article reviews recent developments of homogeneous catalysts in emerging applications of sustainable energy. The most important focus has been on hydrogen storage as several efficient homogeneous catalysts have been reported recently for (de)hydrogenative transformations promising to the hydrogen economy. Another direction that has been extensively covered in this review is that of the methanol economy. Homogeneous catalysts investigated for the production of methanol from CO2, CO, and HCOOH have been discussed in detail. Moreover, catalytic processes for the production of conventional fuels (higher alkanes such as diesel, wax) from biomass or lower alkanes have also been discussed. A section has also been dedicated to the production of ethylene glycol from CO and H2 using homogeneous catalysts. Well-defined transition metal complexes, in particular, pincer complexes, have been discussed in more detail due to their high activity and well-studied mechanisms.
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Kumar , A , Daw , P & Milstein , D 2021 , ' Homogeneous catalysis for sustainable energy : hydrogen and methanol economies, fuels from biomass, and related topics ' , Chemical Reviews , vol. Articles ASAP . https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemrev.1c00412
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Chemical Reviews
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemrev.1c00412
ISSN
0009-2665
Type
Journal item
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Copyright © 2021 The Authors. Published by American Chemical Society. Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.
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A.K. thanks the Leverhulme Trust for an early career fellowship (ECF-2019-161). P.D. thanks IISER Berhampur for the institute seed grant (IG/BPR/B0058/300919) and the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), India, for the SRG grant (SRG/2020/000424). D.M. thanks the European Research Council (ERC AdG 692775) for financial support. D.M. is the holder of the Israel Matz Professorial Chair of Organic Chemistry.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/24248

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