Isolation of a C5-deprotonated Imidazolium, a crystalline "Abnormal" N-Heterocyclic Carbene

Science

Volumn 326, Issue 5952, 2009, Pages 556-559

  Aldeco Perez, Eugenia ^a   Rosenthal, Amos J ^a   Donnadieu, Bruno ^a   Parameswaran, Pattiyil ^b   Frenking, Gernot ^b   Bertrand, Guy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBENE; CARBON; IMIDAZOLE DERIVATIVE;

CARBON; CATALYSIS; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUND; TRANSITION ELEMENT;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ISOMER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON TRANSPORT; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SOLID STATE; SUBSTITUTION REACTION; SYNTHESIS; THERMOSTABILITY;

CRYSTALLIZATION; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS; IMIDAZOLES; ISOMERISM; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROCESSES; PROTONS; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 70350496543     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1178206     Document Type: Article

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