<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>25</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Milstein, David</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Balaraman, Ekambaram</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Gunanathan, Chidambaram</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Gnanaprakasam, Boopathy</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Zhang, Jing</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Novel ruthenium complexes and their uses in processes for formation and/or hydrogenation of esters, amides and derivatives thereof</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">EP2629889A2, US9045381, US20130281664, WO2012052996A2, WO2012052996A3</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2012</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">OCT</style></date></pub-dates></dates><number><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">US 14/702,641</style></number><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; line-height: 21.3333px;&quot;&gt;The present invention relates to novel Ruthenium complexes and related borohydride complexes, and their use for (1) hydrogenation of amides (including polyamides) to alcohols and amines; (2) preparing amides from alcohols with amines (including preparing polyamides (e.g., polypeptides) by reacting dialcohols and diamines or by polymerization of amino alcohols); (3) hydrogenation of esters to alcohols (including hydrogenation of cyclic esters (lactones), cyclic di-esters (di-lactones) or polyesters); (4) hydrogenation of organic carbonates (including polycarbonates) to alcohols and of carbamates (including polycarbamates) or urea derivatives to alcohols and amines; (5) dehydrogenative coupling of alcohols to esters; (6) hydrogenation of secondary alcohols to ketones; (7) amidation of esters (synthesis of amides from esters and amines); (8) acylation of alcohols using esters; (9) coupling of alcohols with water to form carboxylic acids; and (10) dehydrogenation of beta-amino alcohols to form pyrazines. The present invention further relates to novel uses of certain pyridine Ruthenium complexes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract><section><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">US20150284417 A1</style></section></record></records></xml>