Copper–Carbon Homolysis Competes with Reductive Elimination in Well-Defined Copper(III) Complexes
- Award ID(s):
- 2237757
- PAR ID:
- 10483646
- Publisher / Repository:
- American Chemical Society
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Journal of the American Chemical Society
- Volume:
- 145
- Issue:
- 48
- ISSN:
- 0002-7863
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 26152 to 26159
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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