Heterolytic dihydrogen activation by a frustrated carbene-borane Lewis pair

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 47, Issue 39, 2008, Pages 7428-7432

  Holschumacher, Dirk ^a   Bannenberg, Thomas ^a   Hrib, Cristian G ^a   Jones, Peter G ^a   Tamm, Matthias ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Boranes; Carbenes; Donor acceptor systems; Hydrogen activation; Quantum chemistry

Indexed keywords

EID: 54749125732     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.200802705     Document Type: Article

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