10.18453/rosdok_id00002525 Zhou, Wei Wei Zhou http://d-nb.info/gnd/1193588405 Universität Rostock 2019 333.7 Natural resources, energy and environment 540 Chemistry & allied sciences 2019 en http://purl.uni-rostock.de/rosdok/id00002525 urn:nbn:de:gbv:28-rosdok_id00002525-0 The content of this thesis is about base metal catalyzed dehydrogenation reactions and it contains two parts. In the first part, a cobalt catalyzed formic acid dehydrogenation in aqueous media is disclosed. The second part deals with a manganese catalyzed dehydrogenation of alcohols which was developed by in-situ combination of manganese pentacarbonyl bromide with phosphine free oxamide ligands.