Clean and fast: Transfer hydrogenation of carbonyl compounds in water is attracting increasing attention. This Highlight describes the recent advances in this field made using half-sandwich metal complexes and iridacycle-type complexes as a new kind of versatile catalyst that exhibits high efficiency and chemoselectivity, as well as a broad substrate scope in water as the reaction medium.
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