Biomimetic methane generation and disulfide formation by catalysis with a nickel complex

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Masaru Tada and Yoshihide Masuzawa


Abstract

The final metabolic process of methanogen, methane generation and simultaneous disulfide formation, is simulated by the reaction of thioanisole with a toluenethiyl radical in the presence of a nickel complex, which is generated by the photolysis of a toluenethiolato–nickel complex.


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