This review provides an overview of the decisive role of metal–support interaction in the reductive amination of levulinates to N-containing compounds, which helps design catalytic materials for the reductive amination of carbonyl compounds.
Porous metal–organic magnets offer exciting opportunities for applications ranging from magnetic separation to biomedicine. While most metal–organic solids lack magnetic order, recent efforts have yielded compounds with high ordering temperatures.
Recent advances in the amination of biomass-derived molecules to generate valuable nitrogenous chemicals by employing thermocatalysis, electrocatalysis and photocatalysis strategies are reviewed.
Pt-impregnated monoclinic ZrO2 (Pt/M-ZrO2) possesses a high hydrogen activation capability and shows remarkable catalytic activity towards reductive amination under ambient conditions than Pt-impregnated tetragonal ZrO2 (Pt/T-ZrO2).
One-pot transformation of readily accessible donor–acceptor cyclopropanes to γ-aminobutyric acid derivatives, which are of interest for pharmacology, including anti-epileptic drug vigabatrin, is reported.