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Enabling Catalytic Ketone Hydrogenation by Frustrated Lewis Pairs

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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 136, Issue 45, Pages 15809-15812

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AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ja508829x

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  1. NSERC of Canada
  2. Canada Research Chair
  3. NSERC CGS-D2

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Hydrogenation of alkyl and aryl ketones using H-2 is catalytically achieved in 18 examples using 5 mol % B(C6F5)(3) in an ethereal solvent. In these cases the borane and ether behave as a frustrated Lewis pair to activate H-2 and effect the reduction.

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