Mechanistic aspects of the reactions of bis(pentafluorophenyl)borane with the dialkyl zirconocenes Cp2ZrR2 (R = CH3, CH2SiMe3, and CH2C6H5)

Organometallics

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 2459-2469

  Spence, Rupert E V H ^b   Piers, Warren E ^a   Sun, Yimin ^b   Parvez, Masood ^b   MacGillivray, Leonard R ^c   Zaworotko, Michael J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b NOVA CHEMICALS CORPORATION   (Canada)

^c SAINT MARY S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.1021/om9802313     Document Type: Article

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