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Dinitrogen formation by oxidative intramolecular N---N coupling in cis,cis-[(bpy)2(NH3)RuORu(NH3)(bpy)2]4+

Osamu Ishitani1, Emiko Ando, Thomas J Meyer

  • 1Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. ishitani@chem.titech.ac.jp

Inorganic Chemistry
|March 4, 2003
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