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Cover Picture: Palladium‐Catalyzed Carbon–Carbon Bond Formation and Cleavage of Organo(hydro)fullerenes (Chem. Eur. J. 19/2009)
Author(s) -
Nambo Masakazu,
Itami Kenichiro
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.200990065
Subject(s) - fullerene , catalysis , cleavage (geology) , chemistry , palladium , reinforced carbon–carbon , bond cleavage , carbon fibers , photochemistry , polymer chemistry , organic chemistry , materials science , composite number , composite material , fracture (geology)
An unexpected CH bond dimerization reaction and CC bond‐cleavage reaction in organo(hydro)fullerenes have been discovered. In their Communication on page 4760 ff. , K. Itami and M. Nambo describe the use of Pd catalysts for a number of interesting reactions of such fullerenes.