The conversion of inexpensive, saturated hydrocarbon feedstocks into value-added speciality chemicals using regiospecific, catalytic functionalization of alkanes is a major goal of organometallic ...
Figure 3: Proposed catalytic transfer dehydrogenation cycle using the resting state of the catalyst, namely complex 1. Figure 4: Computed Gibbs free energy profile for the dehydrogenation of ...
A leading synthetic challenge for chemists is how to precisely target a single C–H bond for reaction among many similar-looking ones in an organic molecule. Carefully crafted transition-metal ...