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Borrowing hydrogen: a catalytic route to C-C bond formation from alcohols
Michael G Edwards1, Rodolphe F R Jazzar, Belinda M Paine
1Department of Chemistry, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath, UKBA2 7AY.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|January 23, 2004
Abstract:
Ruthenium complexes have been shown to perform efficient transfer hydrogenation reactions between alcohols and alkenes; in combination with an in situ Wittig reaction, indirect formation of C-C bonds has been achieved from alcohols.