Four ruthenium-N-heterocyclic carbene complexes (3-6) have been prepared and the new compounds characterized by C, H, N analyses, H-1-NMR and C-13-NMR. The reduction of ketones to alcohols via transfer hydrogenation was achieved with catalytic amounts of complexes 3-6 in the presence of t-BuOK. Copyright (c) 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
C1 Inonu Univ, Fac Sci & Art, Dept Chem, TR-44280 Malatya, Turkey.
Ege Univ, Dept Chem, Fac Sci, TR-3510 Bornova, Turkey.