Ja. Banister et al., PREPARATIVE-SCALE ORGANOMETALLIC CHEMISTRY IN SUPERCRITICAL FLUIDS - ISOLATION OF [CR(CO)5(C2H4)] AS A STABLE SOLID AT ROOM-TEMPERATURE, Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, (24), 1993, pp. 1814-1815
A miniature flow reactor has been developed for photochemical reaction
s in supercritical fluids; [Cr(CO)5(C2H4)] is isolated, for the first
time, by the UV photolysis of [Cr(CO)6] in supercritical C2H4 at room
temp. with a yield of ca. 40 mg per hour at ca. 80% purity as estimate
d by IR spectroscopy.