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A stable alkyl hydride of a first row transition metal
Leonard A MacAdams1, Gerald P Buffone, Christopher D Incarvito
1Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Center for Catalytic Science and Technology, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|June 5, 2003
Abstract:
Hydrogenolysis of a Cr(III) dialkyl precursor produced a binuclear chromium complex with a bridging hydride and a bridging alkyl; this structurally characterized organometallic compound is thermally very stable and does not undergo the expected reductive elimination of alkane.