Abstract
Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the stereochemistry and the mechanism of hydrogenation of unsaturated hydrocarbons. The chapter reviews the development of the concepts and methods pertinent to the application of stereochemistry to the study of the mechanism of the surface-catalyzed reactions of hydrogen with unsaturated hydrocarbons. Explanations of the stereochemistry of hydrogenation have been dominated by ideas concerning the manner in which a given unsaturated compound may best be fitted onto a planar surface from which hydrogen is abstracted. The chapter discusses the development of techniques that permit the identification of different product-controlling reactions that directs one to consider the stereochemical consequences of various postulated reaction sequences. The similarity between heterogeneous and homogeneous catalytic hydrogenation has been emphasized recently by the demonstration that platinum–tin complexes catalyze the homogeneous hydrogenation of acetylene and ethylene at room temperature and certain complexes of rhodium are effective for the hydrogenation of 1-hexene.
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