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ONE of the most active systems for the homogeneous activation of molecular hydrogen is an aqueous solution of potassium pentacyanocobaltate-(II), because of the high rate with which it absorbs H2. In the presence of deuterium this system also catalyses the exchange reaction D2—H2O, but with a considerably lower rate than that of the hydrogen absorption. The mechanism of the multiple reactions which take place in these solutions has been recently elucidated1–5.
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PIRINGER, O., FARCAS, A. Homogeneous Catalytic Activation of Hydrogen in Aqueous Solutions of Cobaltous Cyanide and Ethylenediamine. Nature 206, 1040 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/2061040a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/2061040a0
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