ORGN 758 |
| Thanks to their lone pair of electrons and accessible vacant orbital, singlet carbenes resemble, at least to some extent, transition metal centers, and thus are potentially able to mimic their chemical behavior. Here it is shown that carbenes can operate as single site molecules for the activation of small molecules under extremely mild conditions. However, mechanistically transition metals and these carbenes differ significantly in the way in which they activate small molecules.
References: G.D. Frey, V. Lavallo, B. Donnadieu, W.W. Schoeller, G. Bertrand, Science 2007, in press.
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Combinatorial, Parallel and Process Chemistry, Heterocycles, Aromatics, New Reactions and Methodology
8:00 PM-10:00 PM, Wednesday, August 22, 2007 BCEC -- Exhibit Hall - B2, Poster
Division of Organic Chemistry |