Functionalised N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes

N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) have found increasing use asreagents for a range of organic transformations and in asymmetricorganocatalysis. The performance of these molecules can be improvedand tuned by functionalisation. Functionalised carbenes can anchorfree carbenes to the metal site, introduce hemilability, provide ameans to immobilise transition metal carbene catalysts, introducechirality, provide a chelate ligand or bridge two metal centres.NHC can be attached to carbohydrates and campher, derived fromamino acids and purines, they can be used as organocatalystsmimicking vitamin B1 or as weak "solvent" donors inlanthanide chemistry.
Functionalised N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes describesmajor trends in functionalised NHC ligands, aiming to assistreaders in their attempts to develop and apply their ownfunctionalised carbenes. After an introduction to the chemistry andbehaviour of NHC, the book gives a detailed description offunctionalised carbenes and their complexes according to a range offunctional groups, each with a discussion of the synthetic route,structure, stability and performance.
Functionalised N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes is anessential guide to fine-tuning this important class of compoundsfor practitioners, researchers and advanced students working insynthetic organometallic and organic chemistry and catalysis.