It's on lithium! an answer to the recent communication which asked the question: ‘if the cyano ligand is not on copper, then where is it?’
- 1 January 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Chemical Communications
- No. 7,p. 815-816
- https://doi.org/10.1039/cc9960000815
Abstract
In this paper we answer the question recently posed by Lipshutz and James (see title), and we present a mechanism which explains why the cuprates prepared from CuCN have a greater product-forming ability in many reactions.Keywords
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