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Fischer Carbene Complexes: Beautiful Playgrounds To Study Single Electron Transfer (SET) Reactions
Author(s) -
Sierra Miguel A.,
GómezGallego Mar,
MartínezÁlvarez Roberto
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.200601470
Subject(s) - carbene , reactivity (psychology) , reagent , chemistry , electron transfer , electrospray ionization , redox , combinatorial chemistry , transition metal carbene complex , electron , computational chemistry , photochemistry , organic chemistry , catalysis , ion , physics , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology , quantum mechanics
The knowledge of the reactivity of Fischer carbene complexes in electron transfer processes is still in the early stage of development, but interesting advances are foreseeable in this young branch of metal–carbene chemistry. Although these compounds have a dual reactivity (which makes them good substrates for oxidation and reduction processes), their behavior towards chemical electron transfer (ET) reagents was unknown until very recently. This article covers the progress accomplished in the reactivity of these compounds towards chemical ET reagents (C 8 K or SmI 2 ), as well as the use of nonconventional sources of electrons, such as electrospray ionization (ESI) to induce ET processes. Special emphasis will be made on the effect of the structure of the starting carbene in the outcome of the reaction and in discussing the different mechanisms proposed.