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

摘要

Various carbon-carbon double bonds in olefins and alpha,beta-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. [References: 47]