Issue 13, 2017

A hybrid carbocyclic/N-heterocyclic carbene ligand

Abstract

We report the synthesis and characterisation of the first complex bearing a bidentate carbocyclic/N-heterocyclic carbene ligand, which represents an unprecedented combination of these two carbene classes. Starting from an unsubstituted cycloheptatrienylidene–Pd complex, the ligand was built up in an on-site synthesis at the metal center. DFT calculations were employed to understand the crucial allyl-to-alkyl rearrangement of the carbocycle in this sequence and all its binding modes during the reaction cascade were crystallographically characterised.

Graphical abstract: A hybrid carbocyclic/N-heterocyclic carbene ligand

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Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
20 Oct 2016
Accepted
08 Dec 2016
First published
08 Dec 2016
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

Chem. Commun., 2017,53, 2098-2101

A hybrid carbocyclic/N-heterocyclic carbene ligand

C. Jandl and A. Pöthig, Chem. Commun., 2017, 53, 2098 DOI: 10.1039/C6CC08468K

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