Unexpected Ccarbene-X (X: I, Br, Cl) reductive elimination from N-heterocyclic carbene copper halide complexes under oxidative conditions

Organometallics

Volumn 29, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 3683-3685

  Lin, Bo Lin ^a   Kang, Peng ^a   Stack, T Daniel P ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBENES; CATALYST DESIGNS; COPPER HALIDE; DECOMPOSITION PATHWAY; DENSITY-FUNCTIONAL CALCULATIONS; HALIDE COMPLEXES; LATE TRANSITION METALS; LONE PAIR ELECTRONS; N-HETEROCYCLIC CARBENES; NHC LIGANDS; OXIDATIVE CONDITIONS; REACTION MECHANISM; REDUCTIVE ELIMINATION; SIMPLIFIED MODELS;

CARBON INORGANIC COMPOUNDS; COMPLEXATION; COPPER COMPOUNDS; METAL COMPLEXES; METAL HALIDES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; TRANSITION METALS;

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS;

EID: 77956409611     PISSN: 02767333     EISSN: 15206041     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/om1005726     Document Type: Article

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