Ruthenium-catalyzed demethanative coupling of HGeMe3: A high yield route to polygermanes

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 118, Issue 39, 1996, Pages 9430-9431

  Reichl, Jennifer A ^a   Popoff, Christine M ^a   Gallagher, Laurie A ^a   Remsen, Edward E ^b   Berry, Donald H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b MONSANTO COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORGANOGERMANIUM COMPOUND;

ARTICLE; DRUG SYNTHESIS; REACTION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0029955754     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja961777o     Document Type: Article

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