Dihydrogen Bonds as Intermediates in Intermolecular Proton Transfer Reactions

DIHYDROGEN BONDS AS INTERMEDIATES IN INTERMOLECULAR PROTON TRANSFER REACTIONS 

Proton transfer to negatively charged hydrogen atoms has attracted the attention of many chemists over the last two decades. This process plays an important role in many chemical and biochemical phenomena that occnr in the gas phase, in solution, and in the solid state [1-3], For example, direct proton attack on hydride ligands generates transition metal dihydrogen complexes which are then involved in various catalytic transformations [4]  

Stoichiometric and catalytic ionic hydrogenation as the seqnence transfer of atoms 

Dihydrogen Bonds Principles, Experiments, and Applications, By Vladimir I. Bakhmutov Copyright 2008 John Wiley Sons, Inc. 

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