“…Moreover, early work on gold films examined the hydrogenation of acetone to iso-propanol [22], although more recently, supported gold catalysts were reported to be inactive for the same reaction [23]. Favourable results are reported in the hydrogenation of a,b-unsaturated aldehydes to the corresponding unsaturated alcohol: acrolein (2-propenal) [24][25][26] and crotonaldehyde (2-butenal) [15,27,28], as well as the selective hydrogenation of unsaturated ketones in the liquid phase [29,30].…”