Talk:Homogeneous hydrogenation catalysis

We might revamp this homework project

One possible trajectory for this homework essay is to use it as a starting point for an article on homogenous catalytic hydrogenation. There is no reason to disparage this thing, but we do not want to encourage a series on [your-metal-here]-catalyzed hydrogenation. If other editors have questions or concerns let me know. --Smokefoot (talk) 09:36, 22 June 2016 (UTC)

Having looked at it, our article on hydrogenation is already well divided into homogeneous and heterogeneous sections. So we would have to be careful not to have this end-up as a content fork. Homogeneous hydrogenation catalysts are becoming more important industrially, particularly Rh,Ru,Ir-diphosphines, as they can work at loading of 0.01 mol% or below.--Project Osprey (talk) 15:56, 23 June 2016 (UTC)

Oh, good thoughts. I was feeling horrified with the predecessor article but should have looked around. Maybe we should redirect this thing to there. --Smokefoot (talk) 17:26, 23 June 2016 (UTC)

That seems like a better option; once you take out the lead and generalized-comments, the remaining info is small enough to merged sensibly. I think the hydrogenation article could also do with a revamp, like a lot of our older top-level pages it's seen years of minor edits which have resulted in it becoming quite disjointed. --Project Osprey (talk) 10:22, 24 June 2016 (UTC)