Carbene radicals in transition-metal-catalyzed reactions

RFJ Epping, D Vesseur, M Zhou, B de Bruin - ACS catalysis, 2023 - ACS Publications
Discovered as organometallic curiosities in the 1970s, carbene radicals have become a
staple in modern-day homogeneous catalysis. Carbene radicals exhibit nucleophilic radical …

Charge frustration in ligand design and functional group transfer

D Munz, K Meyer - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2021 - nature.com
Molecules with different resonance structures of similar importance, such as
heterocumulenes and mesoionics, are prominent in many applications of chemistry …

Cooperative bond activation reactions with carbene complexes

KS Feichtner, VH Gessner - Chemical Communications, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Metal–ligand cooperation has emerged as a powerful concept in bond activation chemistry
and catalysis. Here, both the metal and the ligand are directly involved in the bond breaking …

[2+ 2] cycloadditions with an iron carbene: a critical step in enyne metathesis

MR Hoffbauer, VM Iluc - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Ruthenium carbenes, famously used in olefin metathesis, have impacted numerous
research areas, ranging from synthesis to materials and biology. Although in the same group …

Cataloguing a renaissance in late transition metal PCcarbeneP pincer complexes

RA Manzano, RD Young - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
The emergence of the PCP pincer ligand as a platform to enhance or allow challenging
bond activations and catalysis is an important development in coordination chemistry. Within …

Ruthenium (II) porphyrin quinoid carbene complexes: synthesis, crystal structure, and reactivity toward carbene transfer and hydrogen atom transfer reactions

HX Wang, Q Wan, K Wu, KH Low, C Yang… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Reactivity study of novel metal carbene complexes can offer new opportunities in catalytic
carbene transfer reactions as well as in other synthetic protocols. Metal complexes with …

An Isolable Mononuclear Palladium (I) Amido Complex

J Liu, MM Bollmeyer, Y Kim, D Xiao… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Mononuclear Pd (I) species are putative intermediates in Pd-catalyzed reactions, but our
knowledge about them is limited due to difficulties in accessing them. Herein, we report the …

E–H (E= B, Si, Ge) bond activation of pinacolborane, silanes, and germanes by nucleophilic palladium carbene complexes

CC Comanescu, VM Iluc - Chemical Communications, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
The reactivity of two nucleophilic palladium carbenes,[PC (sp2) P] Pd (PMe3) and [PC (sp2)
P] Pd (PPh3), where [PC (sp2) P]= bis [2-(di-iso-propylphosphino) phenyl] methylene …

Reactivity umpolung (reversal) of ligands in transition metal complexes

RH Morris - Chemical Society Reviews, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
The success and power of homogeneous catalysis derives in large part from the wide choice
of transition metal ions and their ligands. This tutorial review introduces examples where the …

Ln (II) and Ca (II) NC sp3 N pincer type diarylmethanido complexes–promising catalysts for C–C and C–E (E= Si, P, N, S) bond formation

DO Khristolyubov, DM Lyubov, AS Shavyrin… - Inorganic Chemistry …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Ln (II)(Ln= Yb, Sm) and Ca (II)[NCsp3N] pincer type diarylmethanido complexes [2, 2′-(4-
MeC6H3NMe2) 2CH] 2M (M= Yb (2), Sm (3), Ca (4)) coordinated by a tridentate …