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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jun 5.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Chem Soc. 2013 May 24;135(22):8213–8221. doi: 10.1021/ja403165u

Table 2.

Summary of Observations to Support Formation of Catalytically Active Pd Nanoparticles from Pd(TFA)2/2-Me2Npy.

Entry Observation Dehydrogenation Step
Ketone to Enone Enone to Phenol
1 Opaque, dark-red solutions
2 Reliable kinetics require carefully controlled conditions
3 Kinetic “burst”
4 Induction period
5 Filtrate remains catalytically active
6 Hg poisoning
7 PVPy poisoning
8 Pd particles detected by DLS and TEM