Selective hydrogenation of amides to alcohols in water solvent over a heterogeneous CeO2-supported Ru catalyst

CeO2-supported Ru (Ru/CeO2) worked as an effective and reusable heterogeneous catalyst for the selective dissociation of the C-N bond in amides, particularly primary amides, with H-2 in water solvent at low reaction temperature of 333 K, and high yields of the corresponding alcohols were obtained from primary amides.