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Reversible Dihydrogen Activation in Cationic Rare‐Earth‐Metal Polyhydride Complexes
Author(s) -
Fegler Waldemar,
Venugopal Ajay,
Spaniol Thomas P.,
Maron Laurent,
Okuda Jun
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201303958
Subject(s) - rare earth , cationic polymerization , hydride , dihydrogen complex , computer science , ligand (biochemistry) , chemistry , service (business) , metal , information retrieval , business , polymer chemistry , mineralogy , organic chemistry , biochemistry , receptor , marketing
In or out? A quadruply hydride‐bridged dilutetium complex releases dihydrogen under CH bond activation of one of the methyl groups of the ligand. The resulting trihydrido complex readily takes up dihydrogen (see scheme).