PAPER	Synthesis 2003: 2023-2026 DOI: 10.1055/s-2003-41024
© Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart · New York
Ammonium Formate/Palladium on Carbon: A Versatile System for Catalytic Hydrogen Transfer Reductions of Carbon-Carbon Double Bonds
Zdzisław Paryzek*, Hanna Koenig, Bartłomiej Tabaczka
Faculty of Chemistry, A. Mickiewicz University, Pozna, Poland Fax: +48(61)8291233; e-Mail: zparyzek@amu.edu.pl;
Received 18 March 2003

Abstract

Various carbon-carbon double bonds in olefins and α,β-unsaturated ketones were effectively reduced to the corresponding alkanes and saturated ketones, using ammonium formate as a hydrogen transfer agent in the presence of Pd/C as catalyst in refluxing methanol.

Key words

catalytic transfer hydrogenations - reduction - ammonium formate - olefins - α,β-unsaturated ketones