Ruthenium complexes with facially coordinating tripodal phosphine ligands are privileged catalysts for a broad range of (de-)hydrogenation-based transformations but the mechanism remains poorly understood. Here the authors present a detailed investigation on the triphos-Ru catalysed C–O bond scission on a molecular level.
- Alexander Ahrens
- Gabriel Martins Ferreira Batista
- Troels Skrydstrup
