Temperature and Solvent Dependent Catalytic Transfer Hydrogenolysis in Aromatic Aldehydes and Ketones Via Ammonium Formate

Siya Ram Departments of Biochemistry and Radiology, PET Facility Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, 27710; Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 619 South 19th Street, Birmingham, Alabama, 35233

L. D. Spicer Departments of Biochemistry and Radiology, PET Facility Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, 27710

Abstract

Temperature control and solvent specification are used to reduce aromatic aldehydes and ketones to intermediate alcohols rather than methylene derivatives using HCO₂NH₄ as a catalytic hydrogen transfer agent. A mechanism for the catalytic reduction is proposed.

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