tupence_hapeny - 29-5-2007 at 00:51
PLEASE NOTE THE ORIGINAL TITLE WAS MISLEADING TO AN EXTENT SO IT HAS BEEN EDITED
Is this the first (and he didn't make much of a fuss about doing it, so I doubt it) use of transfer Hydrogenation/Dueteration (with Dueterated Raney
Nickel & Dueteroethanol if you please) ?
http://pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/abstract.cgi/jacsat/1954/76/i24/...
If someone can find an earlier use of alcohol and raney-nickel that would be great, if only because people still doubt it would work NOW...
tup
[Edited on 29-5-2007 by tupence_hapeny]