Chelating NHC ruthenium(II) complexes as robust homogeneous hydrogenation catalysts

Organometallics

Volumn 28, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 5112-5121

  Gandolfi, Claudio ^a   Heckenroth, Marion ^a   Neels, Antonia ^b   Laurenczy, Gábor ^c   Albrecht, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^b CSEM   (Switzerland)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOXYLATE GROUPS; CHELATING GROUPS; DONOR GROUPS; E-OLEFIN; ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ELECTRONIC IMPACT; FUNCTIONALIZED; HIGH-PRESSURE NMR; HYDROGENATION CATALYST; IN-SITU; METAL CENTERS; N-HETEROCYCLIC CARBENE LIGANDS; NMR SPECTROSCOPY; REDUCING CONDITIONS; REDUCTIVE ELIMINATION; RUTHENIUM COMPLEXES; THIOETHERS;

CARBOXYLATION; CHELATION; COORDINATION REACTIONS; HYDROGENATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OLEFINS; RUTHENIUM; STYRENE;

RUTHENIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 69949134471     PISSN: 02767333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/om900356w     Document Type: Article

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