N-heterocyclic carbenes in FLP chemistry

Topics in Current Chemistry

Volumn 334, Issue , 2013, Pages 121-156

  Kolychev, Eugene L ^a   Theuergarten, Eileen ^a   Tamm, Matthias ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Boranes; Carbon dioxide; Dehydrogenation; DFT calculations; Dihydrogen; Frustrated Lewis pairs; N Heterocyclic carbenes; Small molecule activation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883080376     PISSN: 03401022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/128-2012-379     Document Type: Article

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