Mechanistic implications of an asymmetric intermediate in catalytic C-C coupling by a dinuclear nickel complex

Mechanistic implications of an asymmetric intermediate in catalytic C-C coupling by a dinuclear nickel complex: "

Chem. Commun., 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C1CC12657A, Communication

Robert Beck, Samuel A. Johnson
A formally Ni(III)-Ni(I) complex undergoes C-C bond formation in the dinuclear catalytic conversion of biphenylene to tetraphenylene.