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N‐Heterocyclic Nitrenium Ligands: A Missing Link Explored
Author(s) -
Choudhury Joyanta
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201104868
Subject(s) - pincer movement , chemistry , carbene , catalysis , acceptor , ligand (biochemistry) , transition metal , organometallic chemistry , combinatorial chemistry , stereochemistry , organic chemistry , biochemistry , physics , receptor , condensed matter physics
Pince me : N‐heterocyclic nitrenium cations have been framed into pincer motifs to explore their unprecedented ligand behavior to transition metals. This work fills a long‐standing gap in the series of main‐group N‐heterocyclic carbene(NHC)‐type ligands (see picture). Reasonable π‐acceptor and weak σ‐donor properties of these new ligands are expected to play a pivotal role in many organometallic reactions and in catalysis in the near future.