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SUBMITTER: Gu Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9366878 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20210618 25
Under mild conditions (room temperature, 80 psi of H<sub>2</sub>) Cp*Rh(2-(2-pyridyl)phenyl)H catalyzes the selective hydrogenation of the C═C bond in α,β-unsaturated carbonyl compounds, including natural product precursors with bulky substituents in the β position and substrates possessing an array of additional functional groups. It also catalyzes the hydrogenation of many isolated double bonds. Mechanistic studies reveal that no radical intermediates are involved, and the catalyst appears to ...[more]