Hydrogenation to saturated hydrocarbons homogeneous catalysis

IT -cyclopentad ienyldicar bony 1 cobalt, CpCo(C0)2 This material is active in the hydrogenation of CO to saturated linear hydrocarbons and appears to retain its "homogeneous", mononuclear character during the course of its catalysis. 

A few decades later in 1968, Halpem formulated the need for new approaches to the activation of C-H bonds with a particular focus on saturated hydrocarbons. C-H bond activation, equated with dissociation of carbon-hydrogen bonds by metal complexes , was identified as one of the most important challenges in catalysis [4]. Perhaps the most influential discovery in this area was made in the late 1960s by Hodges and Garnett, who demonstrated that a homogeneous aqueous so-... 

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