In this new Hot article from Hans de Vries and coworkers they investigate the preparation and catalytic activity of iron nano particles by Grignard reduction:
At the frontier between heterogeneous and homogeneous catalysis: hydrogenation of olefins and alkynes with soluble iron nanoparticles
Claudine Rangheard, César de Julián Fernández, Pim-Huat Phua, Johan Hoorn, Laurent Lefort and Johannes G. de Vries
Dalton Trans., 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0DT00177E
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