Frontispiece: Catalytic Transfer Deuteration and Hydrodeuteration: Emerging Techniques to Selectively Transform Alkenes and Alkynes to Deuterated Alkanes

Abstract

Selective incorporation of deuterium into small molecules has emerged as a new challenge to chemists due to an increasing demand for deuterium-labeled organic molecules. For this purpose, commercial or readily synthesized deuterium donors are employed as easy-to-handle reagents for transfer deuteration and hydrodeuteration reactions. Read more about recent advances in the catalytic transfer deuteration and hydrodeuteration for the selective synthesis of deuterated compounds in the Minireview by J. R. Clark et al. on page 9988 ff.