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Bis(imino)pyridine cobalt alkyl complexes and their reactivity towards ethylene: a model system for beta-hydrogen
Vernon C Gibson1, Kilian P Tellmann, Martin J Humphries
1Department of Chemistry, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London, UK SW7 2AY.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|November 15, 2002
Abstract:
Bis(imino)pyridine cobalt(I) n-alkyl complexes react with ethylene by beta-hydrogen transfer, allowing direct study of a termination step commonly encountered in polymerisation and oligomerisation catalysis.