N-Heterocyclic carbenes, despite being isolated and characterized three decades ago, still
capture scientists' interest as versatile, modular and strongly coordinating moieties. In the …

Boron-centred radicals (boryl radicals) are potential and attractive species in main group
chemistry and synthetic chemistry. Recently, the development of boron compounds ligated …

Transition metal complexes bearing N-heterocyclic carbene ligands (NHCs) have gained a
place of crucial importance in numerous areas of research such as medicinal chemistry …

Mesoionic carbenes (MICs) of the 1, 2, 3-triazolylidene type have established themselves as
a popular class of compounds over the past decade. Primary reasons for this popularity are …

The use of 1, 3-dimethylimidazolium-2-carboxylate as an organocatalyst for the glycolysis of
waste PET, poly (ethylene terephthalate), is reported for the first time. Postconsumer PET …

Classical N‐heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) featuring the carbene center at the C2‐position
of 1, 3‐imidazole framework (ie C2‐carbenes) are well acknowledged as very versatile …

The three‐coordinate aluminum cations ligated by N‐heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs)[(NHC)⋅
AlMes2]+[B (C6F5) 4]−(NHC= IMeMe 4, IiPrMe 5, IiPr 6, Mes= 2, 4, 6‐trimethylphenyl) were …

Heterocyclic compounds are important organic compounds and have emerged as key
scaffolds in numerous drugs, natural products, vitamins, biologically and pharmaceutically …

We report a new class of stable mesoionic N‐heterocyclic olefins, featuring a highly
polarized (strongly ylidic) double bond. The ground‐state structure cannot be described …

Neutral 1-boraphenalene displays the isoelectronic structure of the phenalenyl carbocation
and is expected to behave as an attractive organoboron multi-redox system. However, the …