- Angela Dibenedetto: Department of Chemistry and CIRCC, University of Bari, Campus Universitario, via Orabona 4-70126 Bari, Italy. a.dibenedetto@chimica.uniba.it
Aqueous glycerol was used as the hydrogen source for the reduction of CO(2) to the hydrogen carrier formic acid in the presence of the catalyst [RuCl(2)(PPh(3))(3)]. All intermediates were identified and characterized. glycerol was converted into glycolic acid, HO-CH(2)-COOH, that was identified by using (1)H and (13)C NMR spectroscopy.