CO2 as a Redox Shuttle Enables Photocatalytic Dehydrogenative Decarbonylation of Biomass‐Derived Alcohols to Light Alkanes
Jun Hu, Wenhao Su, Chaoqin Zeng, Bruno Vinicius Manzolli Rodrigues, Nils Rockstroh, Susanna Monti, Giovanni Barcaro, Piotr Kuśtrowski, Aleksander Jaworski, Jabor Rabeah, Adam Slabon, Shoubhik Das · 2026
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Jun Hu leads a 2026 team using carbon dioxide as a courier gas in a light driven reaction that turns plant derived alcohols into light alkanes. The change needs two clashing steps: stripping hydrogen from the alcohol, then cutting a carbon bond and adding hydrogen back. Carbon dioxide ferries the reducing power between steps without ending up in the products, the team shows. Isotope tags and radical traps back that reading.
Under visible light the catalyst first turns alcohols into aldehydes, then clips them into shorter alkanes. The courier role also curbs wasteful hydrogen gas release and keeps the catalyst cycling. Hu and the team present redox shuttling as a way to marry clashing steps inside one photocatalytic loop.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Jun Hu, Wenhao Su, Chaoqin Zeng, Bruno Vinicius Manzolli Rodrigues, Nils Rockstroh, Susanna Monti, Giovanni Barcaro, Piotr Kuśtrowski, Aleksander Jaworski, Jabor Rabeah, Adam Slabon, Shoubhik Das |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 40 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |