Catalytic Hydrogenation of Ketones with Anionic Metal Hydrides

Catalytic Hydrogenation of Ketones with Anionic Metal Hydrides 

The understanding of the reactivity of anionic metal carbonyl hydrides that resulted from the studies discussed above provided the basis for development of hydro-genahon catalysts using Cr, Mo and W. Darensbourg and coworkers found that cyclohexanone could be hydrogenated to cyclohexanol by (CO)5M(OAc) (5 mol%) at 125 °C under Hj (600psi) [33]. 

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