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Preparation and Reactivity of a Triphosphenium Bromide Salt: A Convenient and Stable Source of Phosphorus(I)
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Formation and structure of a sterically protected molybdenum hydride complex with a 15-electron configuration:
Miguel Baya1, Jennifer Houghton, Jean-Claude Daran
1Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination, UPR CNRS 8241 liée par convention à l'Université Paul Sabatier et à l'Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse, 205 Route de Narbonne, 31077 Toulouse, France.
Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English)
|November 30, 2006
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