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Chem. Commun., 2005, 3388 - 3390, DOI: 10.1039/b502120k

Dehydrogenation of aliphatic polyolefins catalyzed by pincer-ligated iridium complexes

Amlan Ray, Keming Zhu, Yury V. Kissin, Anna E. Cherian, Geoffrey W. Coates and Alan S. Goldman

We report the first example of the catalytic dehydrogenation of aliphatic polyolefins to give partially unsaturated hydrocarbon polymers.

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