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Designing Metal‐Free Catalysts by Mimicking Transition‐Metal Pincer Templates
Author(s) -
Lu Gang,
Li Haixia,
Zhao Lili,
Huang Fang,
Schleyer Paul von Ragué,
Wang ZhiXiang
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.201002631
Subject(s) - pincer movement , template , catalysis , transition metal , computer science , transition (genetics) , chemistry , metal , nanotechnology , information retrieval , materials science , organic chemistry , biochemistry , gene
Purely organic : Transition‐metal (TM)‐free catalyst analogues, designed by mimicking the electronic and structural effects of TM pincer catalysts, have kinetics and thermodynamics for reversible hydrogen activation comparable to those of the template (see scheme).