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THE original observers of the hydroformylation (Oxo) reaction assumed heterogeneous catalysis. Subsequent workers have attributed, either by specific hypothesis or apparent assumption, both hydroformylation and concurrent hydrogenation (of aldehyde) to homogeneous catalysis by dicobalt octacarbonyl or cobalt hydrocarbonyl. Our recent results, which indicated a heterogeneous character of hydroformylation via cobalt catalysis1, made it appropriate to wonder if hydrogenation under these conditions were not also in reality heterogeneously catalysed.
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ALDRIDGE, C., JONASSEN, H. Heterogeneous Catalysis in Hydroformylation. Nature 188, 404–405 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/188404a0
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