Technical Notes:

1.Highly efficient ruthenium-catalyzed N-formylation of amines with hydrogen and carbon dioxide.

2.Ruthenium- catalyzed hydrogen generation from glycerol and selective synthesis of lactic acid.

3.Effective catalyst for hydrogen transfer reaction catalyzing the N-monomethyation of aromatic amines with methanol. Various aromatic amines are transformed into their corres ponding monomethylated secondary amines in the presence of potassium tert-butoxide.