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Front Cover: Silylene‐Functionalized N‐Heterocyclic Carbene (Si−NHC) (Chem. Eur. J. 2/2018)
Author(s) -
Rottschäfer Dennis,
Blomeyer Sebastian,
Neumann Beate,
Stammler HansGeorg,
Ghadwal Rajendra S.
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.201704696
Subject(s) - silylene , carbene , reactivity (psychology) , molecule , chemistry , ligand (biochemistry) , catalysis , block (permutation group theory) , combinatorial chemistry , polymer chemistry , organic chemistry , silicon , mathematics , combinatorics , medicine , biochemistry , alternative medicine , receptor , pathology
The incorporation of carbene (R 2 C:) and silylene (R 2 Si:) functionalities in the same molecule is a challenging task owing to their inherent reactivity. The synthesis of a stable compound (Si−NHC) featuring an unmasked carbene as well as a silylene is accomplished for the first time by installing a silylene functionality on the backbone of a 1,3‐imidazolium‐derived NHC. The Si−NHC compound offers significant potential as a ligand in the design of new catalysts, and as a building block for the preparation of new molecules and materials. More information can be found in the Full Paper by R. S. Ghadwal et al. on page 380.