Sugar and Spice
The use of renewable resources to produce fine chemicals is an underdeveloped area. A waste-free technology will be necessary to further convert platform chemicals, readily available from biomass. From ChemSusChem, 6 (9), 1631-1635:
We show that furfurals, which can be obtained from C5 sugars, can be coupled with terpenes in up to 95 % yield through ruthenium-catalyzed reductive couplings developed by Krische et al.
The use of renewable resources to produce fine chemicals is an underdeveloped area. A waste-free technology will be necessary to further convert platform chemicals, readily available from biomass. We show that furfurals, which can be obtained from C5 sugars, can be coupled with terpenes in up to 95 % yield through ruthenium-catalyzed reductive couplings. (http://irs.ub.rug.nl/dbi/5236c3a0f2074).
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