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Hydride transfer gets a recharge

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Electrochemical hydride (H–) transfer has been an elusive process. Now, using well-designed model systems, the phenomenon has been isolated and further demonstrated as a practical synthetic method with H2 gas as the hydrogen source.

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Fig. 1: Schematic illustration of the hydrogen reduction reaction for hydride transfer.

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