Chalcone Hydrogenation with Pd/C

Chalcone hydrogenation is shown as an example of an alkene hydrogenation reaction. The experiment converts chalcone into 3-phenylpropiophenone. It highlights how hydrogen can add across a carbon-carbon double bond under catalytic conditions.

Palladium on carbon, or Pd/C, is used as a heterogeneou...

Since its discovery in 1897 by Paul Sabatier, metal catalyzed hydrogenation of ?-bonds, such as alkenes, has evolved into an important process in organic chemistry.

Hydrogenation is a chemical reaction that adds hydrogen across unsaturated bonds in an organic compound.

The use of hydrogenation reactions extends beyond organic synthe...