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Palladium reduction

etoxiran - 12-6-2015 at 14:03

Hi everyone, I have a lot of problems with PdH(dmg) - palladium dimetylglyoxime salt reduction back to metal.
I tried thermal reduction - loses due to vaporizing salt, reduction with hydrogen (Al + HCl or H2SO4) is not complete. Using sodium borohydride in basic conditions gave bad (if not worst) result.

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, but this isn't well describe in any paper which i've read before. Still, it's analytical method for determinating palladium.

Thanks for help