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Catalytic activity of bis-phosphine ruthenium(II) - Arene compounds: Chemoselective hydrogenation and mechanistic insights
Chaplin, Adrian B.,Dyson, Paul J.
, p. 4357 - 4360 (2007)
Bis-phosphine ruthenium(II)-arene complexes have been found to be highly active and chemoselective catalysts for the hydrogenation of aldehydes in the presence of olefinic bonds. Mechanistic studies, including comparisons with a structural analogue, reactions of an isolated hydride complex, base poisoning experiments, and a computational analysis, help rationalize the preferential hydrogenation of C=O bonds, which is suggested to proceed via an ionic outer-sphere mechanism.
