Application of Silicon-Initiated Water Splitting for the Reduction of Organic Substrates

Ashot Gevorgyan; Satenik Mkrtchyan; Tatevik Grigoryan; Viktor O Iaroshenko

doi:10.1002/cplu.201800131

Application of Silicon-Initiated Water Splitting for the Reduction of Organic Substrates

Chempluschem. 2018 May;83(5):375-382. doi: 10.1002/cplu.201800131. Epub 2018 Apr 25.

Authors

Ashot Gevorgyan^{1

2}, Satenik Mkrtchyan¹, Tatevik Grigoryan¹, Viktor O Iaroshenko¹

Affiliations

¹ Homogeneous Catalysis and Molecular Design Research Group, at the Center of Molecular and Macromolecular Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Sienkiewicza 112, 90-363, Łodź, Poland.
² Department of Chemistry, and Centre for Theoretical and Computational Chemistry (CTCC), University of Tromsø, 9037, Tromsø, Norway.

PMID: 31957356
DOI: 10.1002/cplu.201800131

Abstract

The use of water as a donor for hydrogen suitable for the reduction of several important classes of organic compounds is described. It is found that the reductive water splitting can be promoted by several metalloids among which silicon shows the best efficiency. The developed methodologies were applied for the reduction of nitro compounds, N-oxides, sulfoxides, alkenes, alkynes, hydrodehalogenation as well as for the gram-scale synthesis of several substrates of industrial importance.

Keywords: catalysis; silicon; substrate scope; transfer hydrogenation; water splitting.

Grants and funding

SONATA 10, Nr. 2015/19/D/ST5/02774/Narodowe Centrum Nauki