The fascinating story of olefin (or alkene) metathesis (eq 1) began almost five decades ago,
when Anderson and Merckling reported the first carbonrcarbon double-bond rearrangement …

Catalytic reactions in ionic liquids (ILs) have been examined for at least 20 years; for
example, the first report of the use of an IL as a catalyst in Friedel-Crafts acylation was …

Ionic liquids in synthesis P1: FCG/FCG P2: FCG JWBG001-Wasserscheid September 25, 2007
11: 25 Ionic Liquids in Synthesis Edited by Peter Wasserscheid and Tom Welton i Page 2 P1 …

Soluble ionic liquids have recently been used as supports for catalyst/reagent
immobilization and synthesis in homogeneous solution phase. The wide range of ionic …

The dramatic rise in population has headed to an increased demand for raw materials and
energy assets; however, the resource cannot be provided effortlessly in the same shares …

Ruthenium‐catalyzed olefin metathesis reactions represent an attractive and powerful
transformation for the formation of new carbon–carbon double bonds. This area is now quite …

N-Heterocyclic carbenes are now commonly encountered in organometallic and inorganic
coordination chemistry. The increasing attention they enjoy is due to their ability to act as …

Ionic liquids (ILs) have unique physicochemical properties that make them advantageous for
catalysis, such as low vapor pressure, non-flammability, high thermal and chemical …

A detailed overview on the synthesis of four-, five-and six-membered, saturated and
unsaturated N-heterocyclic carbenes used in the preparation of their corresponding …

Solvents play a critical role in “greening” synthetic chemistry, and this is also true in catalytic
organic synthesis. This review attempts to summarize the progress made in the past a few …