Recent advances in the chemistry and applications of N-heterocyclic carbenes

P Bellotti, M Koy, MN Hopkinson, F Glorius - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2021 - nature.com
N-Heterocyclic carbenes, despite being isolated and characterized three decades ago, still
capture scientists' interest as versatile, modular and strongly coordinating moieties. In the …

Luminescent Complexes of Platinum, Iridium, and Coinage Metals Containing N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligands: Design, Structural Diversity, and Photophysical …

H Amouri - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
The employment of N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) to design luminescent metal
compounds has been the focus of recent intense investigations because of the strong σ …

MOF encapsulating N‐heterocyclic carbene‐ligated copper single‐atom site catalyst towards efficient methane electrosynthesis

S Chen, WH Li, W Jiang, J Yang, J Zhu… - Angewandte …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The exploitation of highly efficient carbon dioxide reduction (CO2RR) electrocatalyst for
methane (CH4) electrosynthesis has attracted great attention for the intermittent renewable …

Soot inception: Carbonaceous nanoparticle formation in flames

JW Martin, M Salamanca, M Kraft - Progress in Energy and Combustion …, 2022 - Elsevier
The route by which gas-phase molecules in hydrocarbon flames form condensed-phase
carbonaceous nanoparticles (incipient soot) is reviewed. These products of incomplete …

Designing artificial metalloenzymes by tuning of the environment beyond the primary coordination sphere

C Van Stappen, Y Deng, Y Liu, H Heidari… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Metalloenzymes catalyze a variety of reactions using a limited number of natural amino
acids and metallocofactors. Therefore, the environment beyond the primary coordination …

N-Heterocyclic carbenes as tunable ligands for catalytic metal surfaces

M Koy, P Bellotti, M Das, F Glorius - Nature Catalysis, 2021 - nature.com
Heterogeneous catalysts represent the backbone of many industrial processes and thus
have a considerable societal impact. The active sites of these heterogeneous catalysts are …

First-generation organic reaction intermediates in zeolite chemistry and catalysis

X Gong, M Caglayan, Y Ye, K Liu, J Gascon… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Zeolite chemistry and catalysis are expected to play a decisive role in the next decade (s) to
build a more decentralized renewable feedstock-dependent sustainable society owing to the …

% V Bur index and steric maps: from predictive catalysis to machine learning

S Escayola, N Bahri-Laleh, A Poater - Chemical Society Reviews, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Steric indices are parameters used in chemistry to describe the spatial arrangement of
atoms or groups of atoms in molecules. They are important in determining the reactivity …

N-Heterocyclic Carbenes in Materials Chemistry

CA Smith, MR Narouz, PA Lummis, I Singh… - Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
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 …

Electronic properties of N-heterocyclic carbenes and their experimental determination

HV Huynh - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
N-Heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) have become without doubt one of the most exciting and
popular species in chemical science due to the ease of their preparation and modularity in …