π-Face donor properties of N-heterocyclic carbenes
- 30 September 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Chemical Communications
- No. 43,p. 5417-5419
- https://doi.org/10.1039/b512008j
Abstract
The donor properties of aryl substituted N-heterocyclic carbenes are characterized by lone pair donation from the carbene carbon and, as is shown here, by donation of electron density of the aromatic π-face of the NHC aryl groups towards the metal.Keywords
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