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A Pt/CeO2‐ZrO2 catalytic system was able to initiate an extremely intense hydrogen spillover providing a huge amount of activated hydrogen (12 mol/mol Pt) at temperatures –50°C ‐ +25°C, which was not observed before. The idea was to use this activated hydrogen for reduction of carbonyl compounds under ambient conditions. Thus, the efficient and selective heterogeneous hydrogenation of carbonyl compounds of different structure, including 5‐hydroxymethylfurfural and cinnamaldehyde, to the corresponding alcohols with quantitative yields was successfully performed over the Pt/CeO2‐ZrO2 catalysts at room‐temperature and atmospheric pressure of H2. The proposed catalysts afforded hydrogenation under significantly milder conditions with a much higher activity and selectivity compared to the commercial catalysts and reported catalytic systems. Hydrogenation of the C=O bond in the presence of a C=C bond proceeded with a high regioselectivity.

The use of available renewable sources of raw materials for the production of various organic compounds has long been undoubted and recognized throughout the world. However, the development of efficient “green” catalytic technologies for the processing of bioavailable compounds, namely, the synthesis of catalysts and the selection of optimal process conditions, has become a real challenge for researchers nowadays. In this work, 2,5-bis­(hydroxymethyl)­furan, an intermediate for the production of a number of biobased polymer materials, was obtained by hydrogenation of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural in a yield close to quantitative at room temperature and atmospheric pressure in the presence of a catalytic system with 1% wt of platinum as an active phase supported on ceria–zirconia mixed oxide. On the low-loaded 0.25% Pt/CeO2–ZrO2 catalyst, the yield of the desired alcohol as high as 87% has been achieved after a slight increase of H2 pressure from 0.1 to 0.5 MPa.

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Ultra‐low‐loaded supported Pt catalysts showed an extremely high activity in selective hydrogenation of bioavailable 5‐hydroxymethylfurfural (5‐HMF) to the corresponding diol, i.e. 2,5‐bis(hydroxymethyl)furan (BHMF); among the synthesized catalysts with a Pt content varying in the range 0.025–0.25 wt%, the most active one appeared to be the sample 0.1% Pt/CeO2–ZrO2, which allows us to obtain BHMF with a 97% yield and 100% selectivity from 5‐HMF without the use of alkali or any other additives at a temperature of 170 °C and H2 pressure of 1 MPa, with the 5‐HMF:Pt ratio higher than 1000 mol mol–1. © 2021 Society of Chemical Industry (SCI).

A new reality of the 21st century is the transition to a new type of economy and energy concepts characterized by the replacement of existing petrochemical routes to a bio-based circular economy. The needs for new strategies in obtaining basic products from bio-based resources with minimum CO2 traces has become mandatory. In this review, recent trends in the conversion of biomass-derived molecules, such as simple monomeric sugars and cellulose, to industrially important C5 and C6 sugar alcohols on heterogeneous catalysts based on non-noble metals are discussed focusing on the influence of catalyst structures and reaction conditions used on the substrate conversion and product selectivity. The challenges and prominent ideas are suggested for the further development of catalytic hydrogenation of naturally abundant carbohydrates to value-added chemicals on non-noble metal catalysts.