Shining a light on Fe-catalyzed borrowing hydrogen alkylation

Salma A Elsherbeni; Tahir Maqbool; Md Abdul Bari; Eman M. AlQahtani; Louis Morrill

doi:10.1016/j.trechm.2025.02.001

Shining a light on Fe-catalyzed borrowing hydrogen alkylation

Salma A Elsherbeni, Tahir Maqbool, Md Abdul Bari, Eman M. AlQahtani, Louis Morrill

Cardiff University

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Abstract

The borrowing hydrogen (BH) approach enables commodity alcohols to be employed as alkylating agents, generating water as the sole by-product. Recently, Fe-based catalysts have been utilized in combination with visible light irradiation to enable alkylation processes at near room temperature, which improves sustainability metrics while presenting opportunities for further reaction development.

Original language	English
Journal	Trends in Chemistry
Early online date	26 Feb 2025
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trechm.2025.02.001
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 26 Feb 2025

Funding

The authors gratefully acknowledge the School of Chemistry at Cardiff University and the Department of Chemistry at the University of Bath for generous support. S.A.E. thanks the British Council and the Egyptian Cultural Affairs and Missions Sector for a PhD studentship through the Newton-Mosharafa Fund. T.M. thanks the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan Post-Doctoral Fellowship Programme (Phase III). E.M.A. thanks the Saudi Arabia Cultural Mission in the UK and the Department of Chemistry at King Khalid University, Saudi Arabia, for a PhD studentship.

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