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Recyclable polyurea-microencapsulated Pd(0) nanoparticles: an efficient catalyst for hydrogenolysis of epoxides.

Organic letters (2003-11-25)
Steven V Ley, Claire Mitchell, David Pears, Chandrashekar Ramarao, Jin-Quan Yu, Wuzong Zhou
PMID14627410
ABSTRACT

[reaction: see text] Pd nanoparticles (approximately 2 nm in size) microencapsulated in polyurea is an efficient and recyclable catalyst for reductive ring-opening hydrogenolysis of epoxides, using either HCOOH/Et(3)N or H(2) as a hydrogen donor.