Catalytic activity of hydrogen

J. J. Chessick and A. C. Zettlemoyer The Catalytic Activation of Hydrogen in Homogeneous, Heterogeneous, and Biological Systems J. Halpern... 

Besides metal containing Lewis acids, non-metal additives have also found application in catalysis. These studies are quite pertinent to the development of artificial enzymelike catalysts. As there is a large number of Lewis basic sites in living systems able to be involved in hydrogen bonds, the analysis of the catalytic activity of hydrogen bonding additives would give some indication as to the existence of Diels-Alder reactions... 

Nickel-containing polyfluorometalated [Ni(H20)H2FeNaWi7055] was capable of catalytic activation of hydrogen peroxide for allylic alcohol oxidation in biphasic conditions (catalyst substrate ratio 1 1000). Homoallylic alcohols are significantly less reactive than allylic homologues and cis > trans reactivity is found also in this case. 

The Catalytic Activation of Hydrogen in Homogeneous, Heterogeneous, and Biological Systems... 

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