This page is gold...
http://www.chem.uh.edu/Courses/Thummel/Chem6352/Ch05/ (http://www.chem.uh.edu/Courses/Thummel/Chem6352/Ch05/)
Chapter 5 - Reduction
Catalytic hydrogenation pp. 219-232
Metal Hydride reductions pp. 232-253
Dissolving Metal reductions pp. 253-265
Misc. reductions
1. Catalytic Hydrogenation
Involves adding the elements of H2 across a double bond.
Scheme 5.3. Conditions for Catalytic Hydrogenation.
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If you change the chap. numbers in the urls, there is other gold to mine as well...
I sent the link to the mods, don't know why it didn't show up in an archive or port to sticky thread... especially since it would sort out a ton of newbie questions...
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