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Chem Commun (Camb). 2014 Jan 21;50(6):707-9. doi: 10.1039/c3cc47306f. Epub 2013 Nov 28.

Base-free hydrogen generation from methanol using a bi-catalytic system.

Chemical communications (Cambridge, England)

Angèle Monney, Enrico Barsch, Peter Sponholz, Henrik Junge, Ralf Ludwig, Matthias Beller

Affiliations

  1. Leibniz-Institut für Katalyse e.V. and der Universität Rostock, Albert-Einstein-Strasse 29a, 18059 Rostock, Germany. [email protected].

PMID: 24288039 DOI: 10.1039/c3cc47306f

Abstract

A bi-catalytic system, in which Ru-MACHO-BH and Ru(H)2(dppe)2 interact in a synergistic manner, was developed for the base-free dehydrogenation of methanol. A total TON > 4200 was obtained with only trace amounts of CO contamination (<8 ppm) in the produced gas.

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