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Rare‐Earth‐Metal Methylidene Complexes
Author(s) -
Kratsch Jochen,
Roesky Peter W.
Publication year - 2014
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.201303761
Subject(s) - carbene , rare earth , reagent , organometallic chemistry , chemistry , metal , transition metal , catalysis , earth (classical element) , organic chemistry , combinatorial chemistry , mineralogy , physics , mathematical physics
Transition‐metal carbene complexes have been known for about 50 years and widely applied as reagents and catalysts in organic transformations. In contrast, the carbene chemistry of the rare‐earth metals is much less developed, but has attracted the research interest in the recent years. In this field rare‐earth‐metal alkylidene, especially methylidene, compounds are an emerging class of compounds with a high synthetic potential for organometallic chemistry and maybe in the future also for organic chemistry.