HAT specifically requires the formation of transferable hydrogen radicals from homogeneous catalysts typically in solution. These two reactions will be important to get closer to identifying the actual mechanism that our HEB is using for hydrogenation catalysis. It is important to note that pure hydrogen gas is incapable of performing the HSPE or HAT, as without a catalyst, the hydrogen will not dissociate into mobile hydrogen atoms. In this work, we investigate whether our HEB catalyst can hydrogenate both WO3 and 2,2,6,6tetramethyl-1-piperidinyloxyl (TEMPO) compounds, while comparing to a basic pure platinum catalyst, which can readily hydrogenate these compounds. While we observe the hydrogenation of WO3 in the traditional gaseous state reaction, we also further investigated performing this reaction in a non-reducible liquid medium. The TEMPO reactions were also examined in the same reaction states. Researchers question whether HSPE can occur in a liquid medium. The non-reducible solution is critical, as otherwise the hydrogen radicals would reduce the solvent.