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DOI: 10.1039/A809236B (Paper) Reference Section for: Chem. Commun., 1999, 351-352

Evidence for a ruthenium dihydride species as the active catalyst in the RuCl2(PPh3)-catalyzed hydrogen transfer reaction in the presence of base

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Attila Aranyos, Gábor Csjernyik, Kálmán J. Szabó and Jan-E. Bäckvall

Abstract

The role of the base in RuCl2(PPh3)3-catalyzed hydrogen transfer reactions is to generate a highly active RuH2(PPh3)3 catalyst from the dichloride via two consecutive alkoxide displacement–β-elimination sequences.

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