stoichiometric_steve - 11-8-2007 at 09:45
Tetrahedron Letters 42 (2001) 4257–4259
this is it...for those who have access to Pd/C, formic acid and the amines of choice, the method above is the way to go when reductively aminating
carbonyls to make secondary or tertiary amines. check the table below! oh how nice is it that anhydrous conditions disfavor high yields 
combine this with Synth. Commun. 20, 2453 (1990), and you have another high yielding route to ketones (after acid hydrolysis of the oximes
made by this CTH with formates) as your precursors to employ in the other route mentioned above.
US2007078282 holds some information on how catalytic hydrogenation can be modified with TiO2, ZrO2...anybody think this
can also favorably be employed in CTH using formates?
[Edited on 11-8-2007 by stoichiometric_steve]
