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We thank the National Research Council of Canada for financial support, including a scholarship (R.H.M.), and Johnson Matthey Ltd. for loan of the ruthenium and rhodium salts. 

Materials. Ruthenium trichloride was obtained as the soluble trihydrate from Johnson Matthey Ltd. Treatment of aqueous acetic acid-acetate solutions of the trichloride with 1 atm CO at 80 °C for about 10 hrs gives almost quantitative yields of the tricarbonyl dimer... 

I am grateful to the Science Research Council for support, to Johnson Matthey, Ltd. for the generous loan of rare-metal salts, to my co-workers whose names appear in the references, and to W. S. McDonald for supplying the drawing for Figure 1. 

We thank NATO for a grant which allowed us to initiate this work and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada for subsequent financial support. Johnson, Matthey, Ltd. generously loaned us the ruthenium, rhodium, and iridium trichlorides. 

Thanks are due to NSERC for financial support and Johnson-Matthey Ltd. for the generous loan of platinum. Special thanks go to Lj. Manojlovic-Muir and K. W. Muir and their coworkers who have completed the X-ray structure determinations, K. R. Seddon whose help with spectroscopic studies was invaluable and the able research students whose names are given in the references. 

We thank the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the Ontario Centre for Materials Research, and the University of Waterloo for support, Johnson Matthey Ltd. for a loan of precious metal salts, the DuPont Company for a donation of materials and supplies, and Drs. S.R. Marder and A. Stiegman (JPL-Caltech), W. Tam and L.T. Cheng (DuPont) for helpful discussions and preprints of several publications. 

Available from Johnson Matthey Ltd., Wembley HA9 0HW, Middlesex, England. 

The author acknowledges with gratitude financial assistance from Panatam Pty. and Johnson Matthey Ltd., Catalytic Systems Division, Australia. 

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We thank the SERC, MRC, Johnson Matthey Ltd and the University of London Intercollegiate Research Service for support. We are also grateful to Mr. P. Hydes and Dr. C. Barnard (Johnson Matthey) for discussions and loan of Pt compounds, Mr. M. Buckingham and Dr. G. Hawkes (ULIRS High Field NMR Service), Dr. J. Feeney and Dr. P. Morris (MRC Biomedical NMR Centre) for assistance with some NMR measurements, and Dr. A.B. Robins (Royal Marsden) for discussion of his unpublished results. 

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The author dedicates this review to all of the excellent students and postdoctoral fellows who have worked with him at the University of Toronto. Their names appear in the references. This work was funded by NSERC Canada and the Petroleum Research Fund, as administered by the American Chemical Society. Johnson-Matthey Ltd is thanked for a loan of platinum-group metals. 

W.T.T. thanks the SERC for financial support and N.D.S. acknowledges financial support by ICI Ltd. We are grateful to Johnson Matthey Ltd. for the loan of precious metals used in this work. 

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