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US 6,492,570 B1Granted
Metallacarboranes
AssigneeBritish Nuclear Fuels plc
InventorsNigel Dennis Tinker, Kenneth Wade, Thomas Gibson Hibbert
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Abstract
The invention provides a polynuclear compound comprising two or more metal-hapto-3-capped nidocarborane groups. Also provided is the use of such a compound as a catalyst in a chemical reaction such as a hydrogenation or oxidation reaction.
Claims18
A polynuclear compound comprising two or more carbon-bonded metal-hapto-3-capped nidocarborane groups.
A method of carrying out a chemical reaction in which a polynuclear compound comprising two or more metal-hapto-3-capped nidocarborane groups acts as a catalyst in the reaction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.