Transition metal complexes bearing N-heterocyclic carbene ligands (NHCs) have gained a
place of crucial importance in numerous areas of research such as medicinal chemistry …

N-Heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) are cyclic carbenes bearing at least one R-amino
substituent. 1 The most common subclasses of NHCs are represented in Chart 1. Early work …

Alkanes constitute the cheapest and most abundant feedstock for organic chemicals.
However, the redistribution of CsC and CsH bonds in hydrocarbons into more sophisticated …

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 …

Carbenes are perhaps the most versatile reactive intermediates in chemistry. Since the
original visions of “methylene” by Dumas 1 in 1835 and a generalization of this vision by Nef …

The continuous growth of N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) chemistry is a fact that is pointed
out in all the introductions of the publications regarding NHCs that have appeared in the …

The current status (up to 31 July 2006) of Ag (I)–NHCs (NHC= N-heterocyclic carbene) is
presented with various NHC systems ranging from five membered to seven membered rings …

Abstract Die Chemie der heterocyclischen Carbene hat sich in den letzten Jahren stürmisch
entwickelt. Nach den Imidazolin‐2‐ylidenen wurden weitere cyclische Diaminocarbene mit …

The use of polydentate NHC ligands has allowed the preparation of new compounds whose
stability is entropically improved by the chelate effect. Chelate-N-heterocyclic ligands also …

A series of alkylammonium-imidazolium chloride salts [RImH (CH2) n NMe2] Cl· HCl (R=
Me, t-Bu, Mes; n= 2, 3) have been prepared by alkylation of 1-substituted imidazole …