“…& Eggert, 1954;Cornubert & Thomas, 1954;Hammond, et al, 2009;Inoue, et al, 2002;Chikashita, et al, 1987;Felpin & Fouquet, 2010;Gutierrez, et al, 2010;Zheng, et al, 2015;Keess & Oestreich, 2017;Mori, et al, 2006;Lipshutz, et al, 1998;Wang, et al, 2016). In a classical procedure described by Cornubert et al, the selective reduction of the C=C double bond in the α,β-unsaturated ketone (chalcone) 1a was performed by means of a catalytic hydrogenation process in EtOH mediated by Raney-Nickel poisoned with halo-alkanes (R-X).…”