Pure Appl. Chem., 2008, Vol. 80, No. 5, pp. 1005-1012
http://dx.doi.org/10.1351/pac200880051005
New synthetic methodologies based on active transition metals
Abstract:
Active transition metals, namely, nickel, copper and iron, have been prepared by the reduction of the corresponding chlorides with lithium and a catalytic amount of an arene. These metals, in the form of nanoparticles, have found application in the reduction of a wide variety of functional groups as well as in the alkylation of methyl ketones with primary alcohols.
Keywords
active metals; alkylation of ketones with alcohols; copper; iron; nanoparticles; nickel; reduction.