A highly active alkane dehydrogenation catalyst: stabilization of dihydrido rhodium and iridium complexes by a P–C–P pincer ligand
- 1 January 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Chemical Communications
- No. 17,p. 2083-2084
- https://doi.org/10.1039/cc9960002083
Abstract
The novel P–C–P pincer complex, [IrH2{C6H3(CH22PBut 2)2}] has long-term stability and 200 ° C and catalyses the transfer dehydrogenation of cyclooctnane to cyclooctene at the rate of 12 turnovers min1 min–1.Keywords
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