PD Dr. Andreas Vorholt - Multiphase Catalysis

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Selected MPI CEC publications

• Vossen, J. T., Leitner, W.,  Vorholt, A. J. (2023). Exploring the Hurdles in Thermomorphic Multicomponent Systems in the Rhodium-Catalyzed Multiphase Hydroformylation. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, (11), 10462-10470. doi:10.1021/acssuschemeng.3c01885.
• Vossen, J. T., Hülsken, N., Vorholt, A. J., Leitner, W. (2023). Recycling of a thermoresponsive "catalyst pill": separation of a molecular catalyst in solid ethylene carbonate in various reactions. Green Chemistry, (25), 2872-2880. doi:10.1039/d2gc04822a.
• October, J., Köhnke, K., Thanheuser, N., Vorholt, A. J., Leitner, W. (2022). Reppe-Carbonylation of Alkenes with Carboxylic Acids: A Catalytic and Mechanistic Study. European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2022(43): e202201018, pp. 1-7. doi:10.1002/ejoc.202201018.
• Ehmann, K. R., Nisters, A., Vorholt, A. J.,  Leitner, W. (2022). Carbon Dioxide Hydrogenation to Formic Acid with Self-Separating Product and Recyclable Catalyst Phase. ChemCatChem, 14(19): e2022008, pp. 1-7. doi:10.1002/cctc.202200892.
• Rösler, T., Betting, J., Püschel, S., Vorholt, A. J.,  Leitner, W. (2022). Solvent design for catalyst recycling of rhodium/amine catalysts via scCO(2) extraction in the reductive hydroformylation of alpha olefins. Green Chemistry, 24(17), 6578-6588. doi:10.1039/d2gc01252a.
• Strohmann, M. P., Vorholt, A. J.,  Leitner, W. (2022). Branched Tertiary Amines from Aldehydes and alpha-Olefins by Combined Multiphase Tandem Reactions. CHEMISTRY A EUROPEAN JOURNAL, (xx): e202202081, pp. 1-8. doi:10.1002/chem.202202081.
• Rösler, T., Betting, J., Püschel, S., Vorholt, A. J., Leitner, W. (2022). Solvent Design for the Catalyst Recycling of Rhodium/Amine Catalysts via scCO2 Extraction in the Reductive Hydroformylation of Alpha Olefins. Green Chem., accepted, DOI: 10.1039/D2GC01252A
• Strohmann, M., Vorholt, A. J., Leitner, W. (2022) Branched Tertiary Amines from α-Olefins by Combined Multiphase Tandem Reactions. Chem. Eur. J., accepted
• Püschel, S., Sadowski J., Rösler, T., Ehmann, K. R., Vorholt, A. J., Leitner, W. (2022). Auto-tandem catalytic reductive hydroformylation in a CO2-switchable solvent system. ACS Sus. Chem.& Eng. 10, (11), 3749–3756, DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.2c00419
• Schrimpf, M., Graefe, P. A., Holl, A., Vorholt, A. J.,  Leitner, W. (2022). Effect of Liquid-Liquid Interfacial Area on Biphasic Catalysis Exemplified by Hydroformylation. ACS Catalysis, (12), 7850-7861. doi:10.1021/acscatal.2c01972. Highlighted as cover picture DOI: link
• Jeske, K., Rösler, T., Belleflamme, M., Rodenas, T., Fischer, N., Claeys, M., Leitner, W., Vorholt, A. J., Prieto, G. (2022). Direct Conversion of Syngas to Higher Alcohols via Tandem Integration of Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis and Reductive Hydroformylation. Angewandte Chemie, International Edition in English, e202201004, pp. 1-9. doi:10.1002/anie.202201004. Highlighted as cover picture DOI: 10.1002/anie.202201004
• Vossen, J. T., Vorholt, A. J., Leitner, W. (2022). Catalyst Recycling in the Reactive Distillation of Primary Alcohols to Olefins Using a Phosphoric Acid Catalyst. ACS SUSTAINABLE CHEMISTRY & ENGINEERING, 10(18), 5922-5931. doi:10.1021/acssuschemeng.2c00237.
• Hombach, L., Simitsis, N., Vossen, J. T., Vorholt, A. J.,  Beine, K. (2022). Solidified and Immobilized Heteropolyacids for the Valorization of Lignocellulose. ChemCatChem, e202101838, pp. 1-19. doi:10.1002/cctc.202101838.
• Köhnke, K., Wessel, N., Esteban, J., Jing, J., Vorholt, A. J.,  Leitner, W. (2022). Operando monitoring of mechanisms and deactivation of molecular catalysts. Green Chemistry, 24(5), 1951-1972. doi:10.1039/d1gc04383h.
• Püschel, S., Hammami, E., Rösler, T., Ehmann, K. R., Vorholt, A. J.,  Leitner, W. (2022). Auto-tandem catalytic reductive hydroformylation with continuous multiphase catalyst recycling. Catalysis Science & Technology (7) 728-736. doi:10.1039/d1cy02000e.
• Kreissl, H., Jin, J., Lin, S.-H., Schütte, D., Störtte, S., Levin, N., Chaudret, B., Vorholt, A., Bordet, A. Leitner, W. (2021). Commercial Cu2Cr2O5 Decorated with Iron Carbide Nanoparticles as Multifunctional Catalyst for Magnetically Induced Continuous Flow Hydrogenation of Aromatic Ketones. Angewandte Chemie, International Edition in English, (xx), xx-xx. doi:10.1002/anie.202107916.
• Rösler, T., Ehmann, K. R., Köhnke, K., Leutzsch, M., Wessel, N., Vorholt, A. J., Leitner, W.  (2021). Reductive hydroformylation with a selective and highly active rhodium amine system. Journal of Catalysis, 400, 234-243. doi:10.1016/j.jcat.2021.06.001.
• Püschel, S., Störtte, S., Topphoff, J., Vorholt, A. J., Leitner, W. (2021). Green process design for reductive hydroformylation of renewable olefin cuts for drop-in diesel fuels. ChemSusChem, (14), 5226-5234 . doi:10.1002/cssc.202100929.
• Schrimpf, M., Esteban, J., Warmeling, H., Färber, T.,Behr, A., Vorholt, A. J. (2021) Taylor-Couette reactor: Principles, design, and applications. Aiche Journal, Early Access, e17228 (24pp) https://doi 10.1002/aic.17228
• Strohmann, M., Vossen, J.T., Vorholt, A.J., Leitner, W. (2020). Recycling of two molecular catalysts in the hydroformylation/aldol condensation tandem reaction using one multiphase system Green Chemistry 22(23), 8444-8451. https://doi.org/10.1039/D0GC03392H
• Terhorst, M., Plass, C., Hinzmann, A., Guntermann, A., Jolmes, T., Rösler, J., Panke, D., Gröger, H., Vogt, D., Vorholt, A.J., Seidensticker, T. (2020). One-pot synthesis of aldoximes from alkenes via Rh-catalysed hydroformylation in an aqueous solvent system Green Chemistry 22(22), 7975-7982. https://doi.org/10.1039/D0GC03141K
• Terhorst, M., Heider, C., Vorholt, A.J., Vogt, D., Seidensticker, T. (2020). Productivity leap in the homogeneous ruthenium-catalyzed alcohol amination through catalyst recycling avoiding volatile organic solvents ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 8(27), 9962-9967. https://doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.0c03413
• Esteban, J., Vorholt, A.J., Leitner, W. (2020). An overview of the biphasic dehydration of sugars to 5-hydroxymethylfurfural and furfural: a rational selection of solvents using COSMO-RS and selection guides Green Chemistry 22(7), 2097-2128. https://doi.org/10.1039/C9GC04208C
• Terhorst, M., Kampwerth, A., Marschand, A., Vogt, D., Vorholt, A.J., Seidensticker, T. (2020). Facile catalyst recycling by thermomorphic behaviour avoiding organic solvents: a reactive ionic liquid in the homogeneous Pd-catalysed telomerisation of the renewable β-myrcene Catalysis Science & Technology 10(6), 1827-1834. https://doi.org/10.1039/C9CY02569C
• Vogelsang, D., Vondran J., Hares, K., Schäfer, K., Seidensticker, T., Vorholt, A.J. (2020). Palladium catalysed acid‐free Carboxytelomerisation of 1,3‐Butadiene with Alcohols accessing Pelargonic Acid Derivatives including Triglycerides under selectivity control Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis 362(3), 679-687. https://doi.org/10.1002/adsc.201901383
• Strohmann, M., Bordet, A., Vorholt, A.J., Leitner, W. (2019). Tailor-Made Biofuel 2 Butyltetrahydrofuran from the Continuous Flow Hydrogenation and Deoxygenation of Furfuralacetone Green Chemistry 21(23), 6299-6306. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9gc02555c
• Bianga, J., Künnemann, K.U. Gaide, T., Vorholt, A.J., Seidensticker, T., Dreimann, M., Vogt, D. (2019). Thermomorphic Multiphase Systems ‐ Switchable Solvent Mixtures for the Recovery of Homogeneous Catalysts in Batch and Flow Processes Chemistry - A European Journal 25(50), 11586-11608. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201902154
• Esteban, J., Warmeling, H., Vorholt, A.J. (2019). Utilization of deep eutectic solvents based on choline chloride in the biphasic hydroformylation of 1-decene with rhodium complexes Catalysis Communications 129, 105721. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catcom.2019.105721
• Plass, C., Hinzmann, A., Terhorst, M., Brauer, W., Oike, K., Yavuzer, H., Asano, Y., Vorholt, A.J., Betke, T., Gröger, H. (2019). Approaching Bulk Chemical Nitriles from Alkenes: A Hydrogen Cyanide-Free Approach through Combination of Hydroformylation and Biocatalysis ACS Catalysis 9, 5198-5203. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.8b05062
• Dreimann, J.M., Kohls, E., Warmeling, H.F.W., Stein, M., Guo, L.F., Garland, M., Dinh, T.N., Vorholt, A.J. (2019). In-situ infrared spectroscopy as a tool for monitoring molecular catalyst for hydroformylation in continuous processes ACS Catalysis 9, 4308–4319. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.8b05066 
• Schrimpf, M., Esteban, J., Rösler, T., Vorholt, A.J., Leitner, W. (2019). Intensified Reactors for Gas Liquid-Liquid Multiphase Catalysis: from Chemistry to Engineering Chemical Engineering Journal 372, 917-939. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2019.03.133
• Esteban, J., Warmeling, H., Vorholt, A.J. (2019). An Approach to Chemical Reaction Engineering and Process Intensification for the Lean Aqueous Hydroformylation Using a Jet Loop Reactor Chemie Ingenieur Technik 91(5), 560-566. https://doi.org/10.1002/cite.201800137
• Kuhlmann, R., Künnemann, K.U., Hinderink, L., Behr, A., Vorholt, A.J. (2019) CO₂ based synthesis of various formamides in miniplant scale: a two-step process design ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 7(5), 4924-4931. https://doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b05477
• Faßbach, T.A., Vorholt, A.J., Leitner, W. (2019). The Telomerization of 1,3 Dienes – A Reaction Grows Up ChemCatChem 11(4), 1153-1166. https://doi.org/10.1002/cctc.201801821
• Rösler, T., Faβbach, T.A., Schrimpf, M., Vorholt, A.J., Leitner, W. (2019). Towards water-based recycling techniques: Methodologies for homogeneous catalyst recycling in liquid/liquid multiphase media and their implementation in continuous processes Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 58(7), 2421-2436. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.iecr.8b04295
• Fuchs, S., Lichtem D., Jolmes, T., Rösler, T., Meier, G., Strutz, H., Behr, A., Vorholt, A.J. (2018). Synthesis of industrial primary diamines via intermediate diols - combining hydroformylation, hydrogenation and amination ChemCatChem 10(18), 4126-4133. https://doi.org/10.1002/cctc.201800950
• Vogelsang, D., Vondran, J., Vorholt, A.J. (2018). One-step palladium catalysed synthetic route to unsaturated pelargonic C₉-amides directly from 1,3-butadiene Journal of Catalysis 365,24-28. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcat.2018.06.004
• Vogelsang, D., Dittmar, M., Seidensticker, T., Vorholt, A.J. (2018). Palladium-catalysed carboxytelomerisation of β-myrcene to highly branched C₂₁-esters Catalysis Science & Technology 8, 4332-4337. https://doi.org/10.1039/C8CY00769A
• Hernandez, R., Dreimann, J.M., Vorholt, A.J., Behr, A., Engell, S. (2018). An Iterative Real-time Optimization Scheme for the Optimal Operation of Chemical Processes under Uncertainty. Proof of Concept in a Miniplant Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 57(26), 8750-8770. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.iecr.8b00615
• Faßbach, T.A., Püschel, S., Behr A., Romanski, S., Leinweber, D., Vorholt, A.J. (2018). Towards a process for the telomerization of butadiene with N-methylglucamine Chemical Engineering Science 181, 122-131. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ces.2018.02.012
• Vogelsang, D., Faβbach, T.A., Kossmann, P.P., Vorholt, A.J. (2018). Terpene-Derive Highly Branched C₃₀-Amines via Palladium-Catalysed Telomerisation of β-Farnesene Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis 360(10), 1987-1991. https://doi.org/10.1002/adsc.201800089
• Faβbach, T.A., Sommer, F.O., Vorholt, A.J. (2018). Hydroaminomethylation in Aqueous Solvent Systems - An Efficient Pathway To Highly Functionalized Amines Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis 360 (7), 1473-1482. https://doi.org/10.1002/adsc.201701463
• Dreimann, J., Behr, A., Vorholt, A.J. (2018). Reaktoren für Fluid-Fluid-Reaktionen: Strahldüsenreaktoren Handbuch Chemische Reaktoren 1-28. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-56444-8_29-1