Backbone tuning in indenylidene-ruthenium complexes bearing an unsaturated N-heterocyclic carbene
Abstract
The steric and electronic influence of backbone substitution in IMes-based (IMes = 1,3-bis(2,4,6-trimethylphenyl)imidazol-2-ylidene) N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHC) was probed by synthesizing the [RhCl(CO)(2)(NHC)] series of complexes to quantify experimentally the Tolman electronic parameter (electronic) and the percent buried volume (%V-bur, steric) parameters. The corresponding ruthenium-indenylidene complexes were also synthesized and tested in benchmark metathesis transformations to establish possible correlations between reactivity and NHC electronic and steric parameters.
Citation
Urbina-Blanco , C A , Bantreil , X , Clavier , H , Slawin , A M Z & Nolan , S P 2010 , ' Backbone tuning in indenylidene-ruthenium complexes bearing an unsaturated N-heterocyclic carbene ' , Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry , vol. 6 , pp. 1120-1126 . https://doi.org/10.3762/bjoc.6.128
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Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry
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Peer reviewed
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Journal article
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