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Reductions made easy: A highly efficient iron catalyst effects the homogeneous hydrogenation of ketones under very mild conditions (see scheme). A mechanism including the insertion of the ketone into the FeH bond, followed by addition of hydrogen to a dearomatized intermediate is proposed.
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