Talk:Nyholm-Rail reaction

Merger/redirect
I propose to move this content, condensed, to diars, the ligand that forms the particular nickel complex that undergoes this unusual reaction. That way we dont need to delete this material. A deletion request has been submitted for Anthony Nicholl Rail.--Smokefoot (talk) 20:30, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I concur. Yilloslime T C  23:07, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Well I checked the literature on this reaction, which I heard about many years ago and it was old then. In any case, Rail is not a coauthor on the report nor is he acknowledged. "A nickel(II)-catalyzed synthesis of a triarsine from a diarsine"

B. Bosnich, R. S. Nyholm, P. J. Pauling, M. L. Tobe J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1968, volume 90, pp 4741–4742. Probably he contributed to unraveling the puzzling reaction but was not around when the crystal structure was solved and the independent synthesis was developed. So we can move this but Rail wont be mentioned.--Smokefoot (talk) 00:58, 20 September 2009 (UTC)