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 carbenes (NHCs) represent one of the most important organic ligands in
coordination chemistry, and have been recently attracting increasing attention in …

Conversion of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) to value-added products is an
important challenge for sustainable energy research, and nanomaterials offer a broad class …

Since the first report of thiol-based self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) 30 years ago, these
structures have been examined in a huge variety of applications. The oxidative and thermal …

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 …

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 …

Ionic liquids with chlorometallate anions may not have been the first ionic liquids, however, it
was their development that lead to the recognition that ionic liquids are a distinct, and useful …

New strategies to access functional monolayers could augment current surface modification
methods. Here we present addressable N-heterocyclic carbene (ANHC) anchors for gold …

Although N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) have demonstrated outstanding potential for use
as surface anchors, synthetic challenges have limited their application to either large planar …

Herein we describe the synthesis of negatively charged N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC)-
functionalized palladium and gold nanoparticles (NPs), which are stable in water for over 3 …