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Synthesis of C60H2 by rhodium-catalyzed hydrogenation of C60
L Becker1, T P Evans, J L Bada
1Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093, USA.
The Journal of Organic Chemistry
|January 1, 1993
Abstract:
Reduction of C60 with rhodium(0) on alumina and hydrogen in deuterated benzene (C6D6) at ambient temperature and pressure yields a mixture of hydrogenated compounds; C60H2 has been characterized as the major product in 14% yield based on 1H NMR.