Abstract The present work reports the first selective catalytic hydrogenation of bifunctional compounds containing a carbonyl and sulphur moieties, using hydrogen transfer from alcohols and a basic catalyst. The reaction was performed in batch at 371 K at atmospheric pressure with 3-mercaptopropionaldehyde, thiophene-2-carboxaldehyde, 5- bromothiophene-2-carboxaldehyde and 4-methylthiobenzaldehyde. The only product of ...
