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Oxidative addition of an alkane RH to an unsaturated metal complex, 2, which is typically generated by photolysis of a saturated metal complex, 1. The reaction is proposed to proceed via an alkane σ-complex intermediate, 3. Figure was adapted from ref. 4.
