An investigation into air stable analogues of Wilkinson's catalyst.

Since the discovery of Wilkinson’s catalyst and its usefulness in the homogeneous hydrogenation of olefins many investigations have been carried out on trivalent, tertiary phosphine–rhodium complexes.¹ Studies have shown that N-Heterocyclic carbenes as ligands offer increased stability to the comple...

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Main Author: Naicker, Serina.
Other Authors: Bala, Muhammad D.
Language:en_ZA
Published: 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10413/10765