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SUBMITTER: Kumar A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7441490 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20200811 33
The widespread crisis of plastic pollution demands discovery of new and sustainable approaches to degrade robust plastics such as nylons. Using a green and sustainable approach based on hydrogenation, in the presence of a ruthenium pincer catalyst at 150 °C and 70 bar H<sub>2</sub>, we report here the first example of hydrogenative depolymerization of conventional, widely used nylons and polyamides, in general. Under the same catalytic conditions, we also demonstrate the hydrogenation of a polyu ...[more]