N-Heterocyclic Carbenes in Materials Chemistry

CA Smith, MR Narouz, PA Lummis, I Singh… - Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
N-Heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) have become one of the most widely studied class of
ligands in molecular chemistry and have found applications in fields as varied as catalysis …

N-heterocyclic carbene coordinated metal nanoparticles and nanoclusters

H Shen, G Tian, Z Xu, L Wang, Q Wu, Y Zhang… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2022 - Elsevier
N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) represent one of the most important organic ligands in
coordination chemistry, and have been recently attracting increasing attention in …

N‐Heterocyclic Carbene‐Stabilized Ultrasmall Gold Nanoclusters in a Metal‐Organic Framework for Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction

Y Jiang, Y Yu, X Zhang, M Weinert… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Ultrafine gold nanoclusters (Au‐NCs) are susceptible to migrate and aggregate,
even in the porosity of many crystalline solids. N‐heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) are a class …

Role of polymer structures in catalysis by transition metal and metal oxide nanoparticle composites

ZB Shifrina, VG Matveeva, LM Bronstein - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
Nanoparticle (NP)/polymer nanocomposites received considerable attention because of
their important applications including catalysis. Metal and metal oxide NPs may impart …

Carbene ligands in surface chemistry: from stabilization of discrete elemental allotropes to modification of nanoscale and bulk substrates

AV Zhukhovitskiy, MJ MacLeod, JA Johnson - Chemical Reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
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 …

Immobilization of N-heterocyclic carbene compounds: a synthetic perspective

R Zhong, AC Lindhorst, FJ Groche… - Chemical Reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Over the course of the past 15 years the success story of N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC)
compounds in organic, inorganic, and organometallic chemistry has been extended to …

Nanostructured conducting polymers for energy applications: towards a sustainable platform

S Ghosh, T Maiyalagan, RN Basu - Nanoscale, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Recently, there has been tremendous progress in the field of nanodimensional conducting
polymers with the objective of tuning the intrinsic properties of the polymer and the potential …

N-heterocyclic carbenes capped metal nanoparticles: An overview of their catalytic scope

M Ghosh, S Khan - ACS Catalysis, 2023 - ACS Publications
N-Heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) have become the most celebrated ligands in various fields
of chemistry due to their unique electronic properties. 1− 5 Since the first stable N …

New trends in the functionalization of metallic gold: from organosulfur ligands to N-heterocyclic carbenes

S Engel, EC Fritz, BJ Ravoo - Chemical Society Reviews, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
In this Tutorial Review, we describe the development of new ligands for functionalizing and
stabilizing metallic gold in the form of planar gold surfaces and gold nanoparticles (NPs) …

Robust gold nanorods stabilized by bidentate N-heterocyclic-carbene–thiolate ligands

MJ MacLeod, AJ Goodman, HZ Ye, HVT Nguyen… - Nature Chemistry, 2019 - nature.com
Although N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) have demonstrated outstanding potential for use
as surface anchors, synthetic challenges have limited their application to either large planar …