A New Class of Singlet Carbene Ligands

M Alcarazo, RM Suárez, R Goddard…

Index: Alcarazo, Manuel; Suarez, Rosa M.; Goddard, Richard; Fuerstner, Alois Chemistry - A European Journal, 2010 , vol. 16, # 32 p. 9746 - 9749

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Abstract

Ever since the first isolation,[1] stable carbenes have gained tremendous importance as ancillary ligands for catalytically active transition-metal complexes and as organocatalysts in their own right.[2] To increase the structural range, our group has recently reported the prototype of a new class of singlet carbene ligands.[3] Specifically, deprotonation of the alkenyl phosphonium salt 3a with potassium hexa- ...