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Preparation and Use of Carbonyl-decorated Carbenes in the Activation of White Phosphorus
Published on: October 3, 2014
A reactive niobium phosphinidene P8 cluster obtained by reductive coupling of white phosphorus
Brandi M Cossairt1, Christopher C Cummins
1Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English)
|November 21, 2007
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