Catalytic coupling of hidrosilanes with alcohols mediated by ruthenium complexes immobilized onto reduced graphene oxide

Abstract

The aim of this work is to study the catalytic dehydrogenative coupling of hydrosilanes with alcohols using the ruthenium molecular complex and the related hybrid material prepared by the immobilization of the molecular complex onto reduced graphene oxide by non-covalent interactions. In this study we have focused our interest on different items: • Synthesis of well-known imidazolium salt that serve as ligand precursor. • Synthesis of ruthenium complex and full characterization by 1H NMR, 13C NMR and Mass Spectrometry. • Synthesis of hybrid material Ru-rGO and characterization by TEM and ICP-MS. • Study of the catalytic activity of ruthenium complex and hybrid material in the coupling of hydrosilanes with alcohols.