It is indicated that the initial carbene for ethene or propene metathesis over active fixed Mo catalysts with well defined reaction sites is formed by a 1,2-hydrogen shift via a molybdenum–n-alkenyl intermediate.
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Iwasawa et al. (1983) studied this question.
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