Tandem pinacol coupling-rearrangement of aromatic aldehydes with hydrogen catalyzed by a combination of a platinum complex and a polyoxometalate.

Together with a strongly oxidizing polyoxometalate, H(5)PV(2)Mo(10)O(40), Pt(II)(N-(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)pyrazin-2-ylmethanimine)Cl2 forms a combined catalyst that was active in the tandem pinacol coupling-rearrangement of aryl aldehydes to give mostly the corresponding diarylacetaldehyde in high yields using molecular hydrogen as the reducing agent.

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