Hannelore Konnerth and Martin H. G. Prechtl
Green Chem., 2017,19, 2762-2767
DOI:
10.1039/C7GC00513J,
Communication
N-Heterocyclic compounds have been tested in the selective hydrogenation catalysed by small 1–3 nm sized Ru nanoparticles (NPs) embedded in various imidazolium based ionic liquids (ILs). Particularly a diol-functionalised IL shows the best performance in the hydrogenation of quinoline to 1,2,3,4-tetrahydroquinoline (1THQ) with up to 99% selectivity.