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Frontispiece: Confinement of Metal–N‐Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes to Control Reactivity in Catalytic Reactions
Author(s) -
Roland Sylvain,
Suarez Jorge Meijide,
Sollogoub Matthieu
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.201884863
Subject(s) - carbene , regioselectivity , reactivity (psychology) , stereoselectivity , catalysis , selectivity , chemistry , substrate (aquarium) , metal , combinatorial chemistry , stereochemistry , organic chemistry , biology , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology , ecology
Caging N‐heterocyclic carbene (NHC)–metal complexes in molecular or polymeric structures can confer them with interesting properties. In their Minireview on page 12464 ff., S. Roland, J. M. Suarez and M. Sollogoub discuss the benefits of caging for the selectivity of reactions catalyzed by such confined NHC–metal complexes. The confinement has been shown to induce selectivities, which are of various types ranging from on/off reaction switches, substrate selection or stereoselectivity to regioselectivity and product distribution variation.