ABSTRACT

J. P. Chen, Deepak S. Thakur, Alan F. Wiese, Geoffrey T. White, and Charles R. Penquite Engelhard Corporation, Beachwood, Ohio, U.S.A.

ABSTRACT

Activated carbon supported palladium catalysts have been widely used in fine organic chemical synthesis. Some of the typical applications are debenzylation, hydrogenation, reductive alkylation, reductive amination, etc. As an effective synthetic method, debenzylation has been used commercially in organic synthesis to deprotect various functional groups.