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The Platinum Metals in Organic Syntheses
ORGANOMETALLIC COMPLEXES AS PREPARATIVE REAGENTS
Platinum Metals Review
Article Synopsis
The synthesis of organic molecules is of growing importance to the chemical industry but conventional methods are becoming increasingly inadequate. Transition metal complexes, in particular those of the platinum metals, provide routes in synthetic chemistry to many useful and interesting compounds. Here the principles involved are explained and a number of the reactions are described.