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No two ways about it: The title reaction is immensely important in synthesis and biology. Whereas biological systems oxygenate aldehydes to generate formate and alkanes or alkenes, synthetic deformylation reactions primarily rely on rapid oxidative addition into the C(O)H bond and subsequent rate-determining extrusion of CO.
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Patra et al. (2011) studied this question.
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