• openAccess   Iridium complexes catalysed the selective dehydrogenation of glucose to gluconic acid in water 

      Borja, María Pilar; Vicent Barrera, Cristian; Baya, Miguel; García, Hermenegildo; Mata Martínez, Jose A Royal Society of Chemistry (2018-08-10)
      We describe an unprecedented catalytic dehydrogenation of glucose by homogeneous catalysts. Iridium ( III ) complexes containing the fragment [Cp*Ir(NHC)] 2+ (NHC = N-heterocyclic carbene ligand) are shown to be very ...