Oxidative addition of ammonia to form a stable monomeric amido hydride complex

Science

Volumn 307, Issue 5712, 2005, Pages 1080-1082

  Zhao, Jing ^a   Goldman, Alan S ^b   Hartwig, John F ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINATION; AMMONIA; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL BONDS; COMPLEXATION; IRIDIUM COMPOUNDS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; OLEFINS; OXIDATION; PHOSPHORUS; REACTION KINETICS;

COORDINATION CHEMISTRY; LIGANDS; OXIDATIVE ADDITION; ROOM TEMPERATURE;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS;

ALKENE; AMIDE; AMMONIA; CARBON; IRIDIUM COMPLEX; MONOMER; PHOSPHORUS;

CHEMISTRY;

AMINATION; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL BOND; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; DEGRADATION; DISSOCIATION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GEOMETRY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION ANALYSIS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ARENE;

EID: 13844307699     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1109389     Document Type: Article

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