Dependable information from the Chemical Enquiries Help Desk in 48 hours. Each month library staff select one of the many enquiries received and highlight selected resources, including the Virtual Library, that provide relevant answers.

The enquiry this month

• I need information on palladium and examples of its catalytic activity. 

The RSC Virtual Library has resources which can start you off from scratch with the basics and then keep you up to date in your specialised area with full text from the latest journal articles.

From full text e-books collections:

Knovel:

The Handbook of Inorganic Chemicals  provides basic data on physical properties, occurrences, uses in alloys and catalytic activity

Handbook of Heterogeneous Catalytic Hydrogenation for Organic Synthesis  sections include Hydrogenation Over Palladium Catalysts

Chemistry of Precious Metals sections include uses, extraction and compounds and complexes of (0)-(IV) oxidation states

Springer: 

Palladium in Organic Synthesis  sections include Nucleophilic Attack by Palladium Species

Metal Catalyzed Cascade Reactions sections include Sequentially Palladium-Catalyzed Processes

From full text e-journals collections:

Springer: 

Heck Reactions of Aryl Chlorides Catalyzed by Ligand Free Palladium Salts
Catalysis Letters Issue Volume 125, Numbers 3-4 / October, 2008

Palladium-catalyzed amination of quinaldine-5-triflate
Central European Journal of Chemistry, Volume 6, Number 1 / March, 2008

Current Abstracts from EBSCO:

Intramolecular cyclization reaction - Palladium(0)-catalyzed cyclization is more effective than tin hydride mediated reaction Canadian Journal of Chemistry, Apr2008, Vol. 86 Issue 4, p325-332

Synthesis of Novel Rigid Analogs of Tryptamine as Potential Serotonin Ligands through Pd(0)-Catalyzed Diaryl Coupling Reactions Synthetic Communications, 2008, Vol. 38 Issue 14, p2419-2428

As part of the services of the Chemical Enquiries Help Desk we can supplement the information above with references retrieved from Chemical Abstracts, Scopus, Web of Science.

Members can carry out their own high quality research from the Virtual Library simply by logging in to a resource with their membership number and password.