The use of N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) in chemistry has developed rapidly over the
past twenty years. These interesting compounds are predominantly employed in …

The stabilization and isolation of highly reactive species has long been the subject of
chemical research. This review will focus on a large and important class of reactive species …

Quantification and variation of characteristic properties of different ligand classes is an
exciting and rewarding research field. N‐Heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) are of special …

Beginning as chemical curiosities with the pioneering work of Curtius, 1a Staudinger, 1b and
even earlier efforts, 1c carbenes have played an important role as transient intermediates …

The chemistry of heterocyclic carbenes has experienced a rapid development over the last
years. In addition to the imidazolin‐2‐ylidenes, a large number of cyclic diaminocarbenes …

Representative atomic and molecular systems, including various inorganic and organic
molecules with covalent and ionic bonds, have been studied by using density functional …

An important role in organometallic chemistry is predicted for N‐heterocyclic carbenes,
which are no longer laboratory curiosites but have developed into an industrially interesting …

In possessing a lone pair of electrons and an accessible vacant orbital, singlet carbenes
resemble transition metal centers and thus could potentially mimic their chemical behavior …

The latest advances in N-heterocyclic carbene-based organometallic chemistry have drawn
increasing attention to this class of ancillary ligands as an attractive alternative to tertiary …

N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHC) is a well established class of new ligands in organometallic
chemistry. Their use as ligands in many reactions catalyzed by transition metal complexes …