Iwai Tomohiro, Fujihara Tetsuaki, Tsuji Yasushi
Department of Energy and Hydrocarbon Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan.
Chem Commun (Camb). 2008 Dec 14(46):6215-7. doi: 10.1039/b813171f. Epub 2008 Oct 29.
The catalytic decarbonylation of aldehydes has been developed using commercially available IrCl(cod) and PPh(3) under mild conditions, and the method could be widely applicable to various substrates with different functionalities.