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High level abinitio molecular orbital calculations show that molecular hydrogen can be cleaved by the 1,3-dimethylimidazolidin-2-yl cation in the presence of a base such as NH3 or HCOO- with quite a modest barrier, in a reaction that models the non-metallic hydrogenase from methanogenic archaea.
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Scott et al. (1998) studied this question.
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