Transfer from Metal Nitrites to Alkenes

We thank M. A. Andrews, R. D. Feltham, W. A. Goddard III, B. R. James, H. Mimoun, and J. Valentine for making articles available prior to publication. Our own research in this field is supported by the Division of 

Chemical Sciences of the U.S. Department of Energy, to whom we owe thanks. 

Hayaishi, Molecular Mechanisms of Oxygen Activation (Academic Press, New York, 1974). 

Metal Ion Activation of Dioxygen (John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1980). Vol. 2 in Metal Ions in Biology. 

Aspects of Homogeneous Catalysis, edited by R. Ugo (Reidel, Boston, 1977), Vol 3, pp. 1-136. 

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