Discovering the role of substrate in aldehyde hydrogenation

In this manuscript, we investigated in detail one of the critical parameters that govern the reactivity of the carbonylic group toward hydrogenation and hydrodeoxygenation: the effect of the side chains of aldehydes. We observed that the presence of a π-electron conjugation on the side chains strongly affects the conversion of aldehydes to alcohols and hydrocarbons under the reaction conditions studied. In particular, the presence of a strong...