Hydrogenation without a Transition-Metal
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Berkessel, Albrecht; Schubert, Thomas J. S.; Müller, Thomas N.
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Article
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2002
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American Chemical Society
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English
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The hydrogenation of unsaturated organic substrates such as olefins and ketones is usually effected by homogeneous or heterogeneous transition-metal catalysts. On the other hand, a single case of a transition-metal-free and purely base-catalyzed hydrogenation of ketones was reported by Walling and B