Pavel A. Dub

TL;DR: A comprehensive overview on homogeneous catalytic hydrogenation of carboxylic acids and its derivatives as well as carbonic acid derivatives with transition metal-based molecular catalysts is described in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, the Noyori asymmetric hydrogenation reaction was shown to behave in a chemically intact manner within the productive cycle or predominantly in a chemical intact way within productive cycles, and it was shown that the ligand is rather involved in the catalytic reaction via the stabilization of determining transition states through hydrogen bonding interactions.

TL;DR: The mechanism of catalytic hydrogenation of acetophenone by the chiral complex trans-[RuCl2{(S)-binap}{(S,S)-dpen}] and KO-t-C4H9 in propan-2-ol is revised on the basis of DFT computations carried out in dielectric continuum and the most recent experimental observations, suggesting that neither a six-membered pericyclic transition state nor any multibond concerted transition states

TL;DR: Analysis presented herein expands the concept of "metal-ligand cooperation", redefines the term "cooperative ligand" and introduces "H(-)/H(+) outer-sphere hydrogenation" as a novel paradigm in outer- Spheres hydrogenation.

TL;DR: A review of metal-ligand bifunctional catalysts relevant to reactions involving H2 or its equivalents can be found in this article, emphasizing systems that have been applied in industry.