Phosphorus as a Lewis acid: CO2 sequestration with amidophosphoranes.

Angew Chem Int Ed Engl

Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3H6 Canada.

Published: May 2012

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