Nickel and Palladium Chlorohydridobis phosphine Complexes

Acid hydrolysis gives an approach to the important optically active a-amino acids. 

Homogeneous Hydrogenation. pp. 248, 429, Inter-science Wiley, New York, 1973. 

Jesson, Stereochemistry and Stereochemical Nonrigidity in Transition Metal Hydrides, in E. L. Muetterties (ed.), Transition Metal Hydrides, p. 110, Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, 1971. 

Nickel hydride complexes had been considered to be very unstable before the discovery of several stable hydride complexes of the type NiHX(PR3)2 

J Nickel complexes were checked by A. Davison, Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139. 

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