Synthesis

Ammonium formate/palladium on carbon: a versatile system for catalytic hydrogen transfer reductions of carbon-carbon double bonds

Z Paryzek, H Koenig, B Tabaczka

Index: Paryzek, Zdzislaw; Koenig, Hanna; Tabaczka, Bartlomiej Synthesis, 2003 , # 13 p. 2023 - 2026

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Citation Number: 31

Abstract

Abstract Various carbon-carbon double bonds in olefins and α, β-unsaturated ketones were effectively reduced to the corresponding alkanes and saturated ketones, using ammonium formate as a hydrogen transfer agent in the presence of Pd/C as catalyst in refluxing methanol.