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Recyclable polyurea-microencapsulated Pd(0) nanoparticles: an efficient catalyst for hydrogenolysis of epoxides
Steven V Ley1, Claire Mitchell, David Pears
1Department of Chemistry, Cambridge University, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom.
Organic Letters
|November 25, 2003
Abstract:
[reaction: see text] Pd nanoparticles (approximately 2 nm in size) microencapsulated in polyurea is an efficient and recyclable catalyst for reductive ring-opening hydrogenolysis of epoxides, using either HCOOH/Et(3)N or H(2) as a hydrogen donor.