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SUBMITTER: Levine DS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5709034 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Levine Daniel S DS Tilley T Don TD Andersen Richard A RA
Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) 20171001 87
Scandium and yttrium congeneric complexes, supported by a monoanionic PNP ligand, were studied as catalysts for alkene hydrogenation and hydrosilation, and alkyne semihydrogenation and semihydrosilation. The yttrium congener was found to be much more active in all cases, but this greater activity is accompanied by more rapid catalyst decomposition and therefore higher total yields for some of the reactions with the scandium catalyst. Calculations indicate that the reactions may proceed via σ-bon ...[more]