CO fixation to stable acyclic and cyclic alkyl amino carbenes: Stable amino ketenes with a small HOMO-LUMO gap

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 45, Issue 21, 2006, Pages 3488-3491

  Lavallo, Vincent ^a   Canac, Yves ^a   Donnadieu, Bruno ^a   Schoeller, Wolfgang W ^b   Bertrand, Guy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carbenes; Carbon monoxide fixation; Ketenes; Optical properties; Radicals

Indexed keywords

CARBENES; CARBON MONOXIDE FIXATION; KETENES; RADICALS;

CARBON MONOXIDE; NITROGEN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS;

AMINE; CARBENE; CARBON MONOXIDE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; ETHYLENE DERIVATIVE; HYDROCARBON; KETENE; KETONE; METHANE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; SPECTROSCOPY; SYNTHESIS; THERMODYNAMICS;

AMINES; CARBON MONOXIDE; ETHYLENES; HYDROCARBONS; HYDROCARBONS, CYCLIC; KETONES; METHANE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 33746238110     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.200600987     Document Type: Article

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