Are you an EPFL student looking for a semester project?
Work with us on data science and visualisation projects, and deploy your project as an app on top of GraphSearch.
Bis-phosphine Ru(II)-arene complexes are highly active and chemoselective catalysts for the hydrogenation of aldehydes in the presence of olefinic bonds. Mechanistic studies, including comparisons with a structural analog, reactions of an isolated hydride complex, base poisoning expts., and a computational anal., help rationalize the preferential hydrogenation of C=O bonds, which probably proceeds via an ionic outer-sphere mechanism.
Shubhajit Das, Rubén Laplaza Solanas, Jacob Terence Blaskovits
, , ,