N-Heterocyclic Carbenes in Transition Metal Catalysis

• Main Author: Glorius, Frank (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2007.
• Series: Topics in Organometallic Chemistry, 21
• Subjects: Chemistry.; Inorganic chemistry.; Organometallic chemistry.; Medicinal chemistry.; Catalysis.; Organometallic Chemistry.; Inorganic Chemistry.; Medicinal Chemistry.

It was only in the early 1990s that carbenes with the carbene carbon being incorporated in a nitrogen containing heterocycle (N-heterocyclic carbenes or NHCs) were found to be stable enough to be isolated. Since the first report on the application of NHCs as ligands in transition metal catalysis in...