When the reaction is conducted with aromatic aldehydes in alcohols, redox esterifications to benzoates are observed. Model reactions such as redox esterifications of aromatic aldehydes with sodium alcoholates in the presence of 1,2-dimethylindazolium salt and oxidations of sodium benzylates by 1,2-dimethylindazolium salt to aldehydes lend support to a Cannizzaro-type mechanism of this reaction.
activation energies of various hydridetransferreactions was developed according to transition state theory using the Morse-type free energy curves of hydride donors to release a hydride anion and hydrideacceptors to capture a hydride anion and by which the activation energies of 187 typical hydride self-exchange reactions and more than thirty thousand hydride cross transferreactions in acetonitrile were