Evaluation of an olefin metathesis pre-catalyst with a bulky and electron-rich N-heterocyclic carbene

The commercially-available metathesis pre-catalyst M23 has been evaluated alongside new complex [RuCl2((3-phenyl)indenylidene)(PPh3)(SIPrOMe)] (1), which bears a para-methoxy-substituted N-heterocyclic carbene ligand. Several model metathesis reactions could be conducted using only parts-per-million levels of ruthenium catalyst. The effects of the different NHC ligands on reactivity have been explored.

Citation

Manzini , S , Urbina Blanco , C , Nelson , D J , Poater , A , Lebl , T , Meiries , S M B , Slawin , A M Z , Falivene , L , Cavallo , L & Nolan , S P 2015 , ' Evaluation of an olefin metathesis pre-catalyst with a bulky and electron-rich N-heterocyclic carbene ' , Journal of Organometallic Chemistry , vol. 780 , pp. 43-48 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jorganchem.2014.12.040

Publication

Journal of Organometallic Chemistry

Status

Peer reviewed

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jorganchem.2014.12.040

ISSN

0022-328X

Type

Journal article

Rights

© 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. This is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Journal of Organometallic Chemistry. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, volume 780 (2015), DOI: 10.1016/j.jorganchem.2014.12.040

Description

SPN thanks the European Research Council(227817) (Advanced Investigator Award ‘FUNCAT’), the EU(CP-FP 211468) (Seventh Framework Programme Project ‘EUMET’), and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council for funding. SPN is a Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award holder. AP thanks the Spanish MINECO for a Ramón y Cajal contract (RYC-2009-05226) and European Commission for a Career Integration Grant (CIG09-GA-2011-293900).