The Mechanisms of Homogeneous Hydrogenation

Abstract

A wide variety of soluble transition metal complexes are known to act as hydrogenation catalysts under very mild conditions. This field has been surveyed comprehensively in recent reference books [1] and review articles [2]. Since 1965, most reports on homogeneous hydrogenation have involved complexes of the platinum group metals with phosphine ligands, and there has been intense activity in this area.