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SUBMITTER: Corr MJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3662400 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20090701 26
This communication demonstrates the preparation, isolation, and full characterization of superelectrophilic salts based on amidine dications in organic solvent, as their triflate salts. These dications are highly activated toward regiospecific reaction with hydrogen gas under mild conditions in the presence of a metal catalyst (Pd/C), mimicking the behavior of the natural substrate, N(5),N(10)-methenyltetrahydromethanopterin, in the iron-sulfur cluster-free [Fe]-hydrogenase. ...[more]