My best guess is that those claims come from some negligible literature results, at least on the productive scale. Whoever reported that probably ran
the combustion or TGA fumes through a GC-MS and identified all those molecules in traces.
Sure, if you heat to decomposition Ni benzoate you probably can find a couple ppm of biphenyl in the fumes, but that's miles away from being a
productive route. If it was that simple, biphenyl wouldn't be that expensive, for one thing.JJay - 22-12-2020 at 13:01
