Magnetic heating has recently been demonstrated as an efficient way to perform catalytic reactions after deposition of the heating agent and the catalyst on a support. Here we show that in solution, and under mild conditions of mean temperature and pressure, it is possible to use magnetic heating to carry out transformations that are otherwise performed heterogeneously at high pressure and/or high temperature. As a proof of concept, we chose the hydrodeoxygenation of acetophenone derivatives and of biomass‐derived molecules, namely furfural and hydroxymethylfurfural. These reactions are difficult, require heterogeneous catalysts and high pressures, and, to the best of our knowledge, have no precedent in standard solution. Here, hydrodeoxygenations are fully selective under mild conditions (3 bar H2, moderate mean temperature of the solvent). The reason for this reactivity is the fast heating of the particles well above the boiling temperature of the solvent and the local creation of hot spots surrounded by a vapor layer, in which high temperature and pressure may be present. This technology may be practicable for many organic transformations.

The mechanistic pathway for degradation of cinnamic acids using 2,4,6-triphenylpyrylium as well as 2,4,6-triphenyl(thia)pyrylium salts (,) as solar photocatalysts has been unambiguously established. Results obtained in steady-state experiments have been correlated with time-resolved photophysical studies. High percentages of photodegradation (60-70%) were achieved when aqueous solutions of caffeic and ferulic acids (,) as model pollutants were submitted to irradiation in the presence of ,. Electron-transfer quenching of both the singlet and triplet excited states of , by , has been proved, and the quenching rate constants (close to diffusion control) have been determined. However, the percentages of singlet quenching by ,, even at relatively high concentrations of the model pollutants, is lower than 5%. In addition to this, growth of the signal corresponding to the pyranyl radical occurs in the microsecond timescale, incompatible with the singlet state as precursor. Thus, photodegradation of , mainly involves the triplet state of the photocatalysts.

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