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Ralf Giernoth1, Patrick Huebler1, Joachim Bargon1
1Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie, Wegelerstrasse 12, D-53115 Bonn (Germany), Fax: (+49) 0228-739424.
Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English)
|May 2, 2018
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The catalyst-bound intermediate 1 is detected in the homogeneous hydrogenation of styrene derivatives in the presence of cationic RhI catalysts 2. The detachment from the catalyst of the ethylbenzene 3 formed turns out to be slow and possibly rate-determining in some cases.
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