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DURING a study of the reactions of alkyl chlorides at the surfaces of evaporated metal films we observed that a gas phase mixture of methylene chloride and hydrogen reacted in the temperature range 200°–300° C at the surface of evaporated titanium to yield a variety of hydrocarbon products from C1 to a waxy polymer. Out of every hundred carbon atoms entering the reaction, not less than eighty entered products of C2 or higher. We wish to direct attention to this reaction because a polymerization starting from a C1 parent is unusual.
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Anderson, J. R., and Avery, N. R., J. Catal., 5, 446 (1966).
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ANDERSON, J., MCCONKEY, B. Catalytic Carbon–Carbon Bond Formation from Methylene Chloride over Evaporated Titanium Films. Nature 216, 681 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/216681a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/216681a0
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