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Preparation and Use of Carbonyl-decorated Carbenes in the Activation of White Phosphorus
Published on: October 3, 2014
Preparation of ligand-stabilized [P4O4]2+ by controlled hydrolysis of a Janus head type diphosphorus trication
Jan J Weigand1, Kai-Oliver Feldmann, Antje K C Echterhoff
1Institut für Anorganische und Analytische Chemie and Graduate School of Chemistry, WWU Münster, Corrensstrasse 30, 48149 Münster, Germany. jweigand@uni-muenster.de
Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English)
|July 21, 2010
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