N-Heterocyclic carbenes, despite being isolated and characterized three decades ago, still
capture scientists' interest as versatile, modular and strongly coordinating moieties. In the …

The successful isolation and characterization of an N-heterocyclic carbene in 1991 opened
up a new class of organic compounds for investigation. From these beginnings as academic …

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

Palladium catalysis has achieved the status of an indispensable tool for both common and
state-of-theart organic synthesis. Among basic types of palladium-catalyzed transformations …

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 …

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 …

Carbenes, thought of only as transient species for a long time, have become ubiquitous in
organometallic chemistry. Their interaction with a metal center, which allows for their …

Although chemically binding interatomic interactions are the basis for chemistry as a whole,
the understanding of the nature of the chemical bond is much less advanced than the …

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 …