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Bimetallic reactivity. One-site addition two-metal oxidation reactions using a di-Co(II) complex of a binucleating

C Incarvito1, A L Rheingold, A L Gavrilova

  • 1Department of Chemistry, The University of Chicago, 5735 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.

Inorganic Chemistry
|August 7, 2001
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