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Reduction of acetylene by zinc amalgam catalyzed by molybdenum cyclopentadienylcarbonyl complexes

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The products of the reduction of Cp2Mo2(CO)6, Cp2Mo2(CO)4, and Cp2Mo2(CO)4(C2H2) are mononuclear CpMo(CO)3-xLx anions (x=0-2). These anions catalyze the reduction of acetylene by zinc amalgam with a quantitative yield of ethane and ethylene relative to amalgam consumed

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  1. Institute of Chemical Physics, Chernogolovka Branch, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, USSR

    S. V. Kukharenko, I. V. Barinov & V. V. Strelets

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  1. S. V. Kukharenko
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Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 2, pp. 464–466, February, 1988.

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Kukharenko, S.V., Barinov, I.V. & Strelets, V.V. Reduction of acetylene by zinc amalgam catalyzed by molybdenum cyclopentadienylcarbonyl complexes. Russ Chem Bull 37, 384–385 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00957452

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