Mesoionic and related less heteroatom-stabilized N-heterocyclic carbene complexes: synthesis, catalysis, and other applications

A Vivancos, C Segarra, M Albrecht - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
Mesoionic carbenes are a subclass of the family of N-heterocyclic carbenes that generally
feature less heteroatom stabilization of the carbenic carbon and hence impart specific donor …

Metal Complexes of Click‐Derived Triazoles and Mesoionic Carbenes: Electron Transfer, Photochemistry, Magnetic Bistability, and Catalysis

D Schweinfurth, L Hettmanczyk… - … für anorganische und …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Even though the existence of 1, 2, 3‐triazoles has been known for more than a century, the
recent discovery of a copper (I) catalyzed version of this reaction has attributed …

Rhenium Complexes of Pyridyl-Mesoionic Carbenes: Photochemical Properties and Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction

L Suntrup, F Stein, J Klein, A Wilting… - Inorganic …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Mesoionic carbenes have found wide use as components of homogeneous catalysts.
Recent discoveries have, however, shown that metal complexes of such ligands also have …

Gauging donor/acceptor properties and redox stability of chelating click-derived triazoles and triazolylidenes: a case study with rhenium (I) complexes

L Suntrup, S Klenk, J Klein, S Sobottka… - Inorganic …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Bidentate ligands containing at least one triazole or triazolylidene (mesoionic carbene, MIC)
unit are extremely popular in contemporary chemistry. One reason for their popularity is the …

Recent advances in the synthesis, structural diversity, and applications of mesoionic 1, 2, 3-triazol-5-ylidene metal complexes

KO Marichev, SA Patil, A Bugarin - Tetrahedron, 2018 - Elsevier
Beyond the classic N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) there is a subclass of NHCs called
mesoionic carbenes (MICs). This review focuses on recent advances in the area of 1, 2, 3 …

A Mesoionic Carbene–Pyridine Bidentate Ligand That Improves Stability in Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction by a Molecular Manganese Catalyst

T Scherpf, CR Carr, LJ Donnelly… - Inorganic …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Tricarbonyl Group 7 complexes have a longstanding history as efficacious CO2
electroreduction catalysts. Typically, these complexes feature an auxiliary 2, 2′-bipyridine …

Heteroditopic Ru (II)–and Ir (III)–NHC complexes with pendant 1, 2, 3-triazole/triazolylidene groups: stereoelectronic impact on transfer hydrogenation of unsaturated …

PM Illam, SNR Donthireddy, S Chakrabartty… - Organometallics, 2019 - ACS Publications
Imidazol-2-ylidene (ImNHC) and 1, 2, 3-traizol-5-ylidene (tzNHC) have been established as
important classes of carbene ligands in homogeneous catalysis. To develop Ru (II)/Ir (III) …

Mesoionic Carbenes in Low-to High-Valent Vanadium Chemistry

FR Neururer, S Liu, D Leitner, M Baltrun… - Inorganic …, 2021 - ACS Publications
We report the synthesis of vanadium (V) oxo complex 1 with a pincer-type dianionic
mesoionic carbene (MIC) ligand L 1 and the general formula [VOCl (L1)]. A comparison of …

Catalytic deoxygenation of nitroarenes mediated by high-valent molybdenum (VI)–NHC complexes

S Liu, JI Amaro-Estrada, M Baltrun, I Douair… - …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The high-valent molybdenum (VI) N-heterocyclic carbene complexes,(NHC) MoO2 (1) and
(NHC) MoO (NtBu)(2)(NHC= 1, 3-bis (3, 5-di-tert-butyl-2-phenolato)-benzimidazol-2 …

Influence of Mesoionic Carbenes on Electro-and Photoactive Ru and Os Complexes: A Combined (Spectro-) Electrochemical, Photochemical, and Computational …

L Suntrup, F Stein, G Hermann, M Kleoff… - Inorganic …, 2018 - ACS Publications
In recent years, mesoionic carbenes (MICs) are finding increasing use as building blocks of
electro-and photoactive metal complexes. We present here a series of RuII and OsII …