The Wacker Process: Inner- or Outer-Sphe
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Aleix Comas-Vives; AndrΓ‘s Stirling; AgustΓ LledΓ³s; Gregori Ujaque
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Article
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2010
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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The Wacker process consists of the oxidation of ethylene catalyzed by a Pd(II) complex. The reaction mechanism has been largely debated in the literature; two modes for the nucleophilic addition of water to a Pd-coordinated alkene have been proposed: syn-inner- and anti-outer-sphere mechanisms. Thes