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Annual Reports on the Progress of Chemistry Section B (Organic Chemistry)

Section B reviews annual developments in organic and bioorganic chemical research



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Annu. Rep. Prog. Chem., Sect. B: Org. Chem., 2009, 105, 232 - 263, DOI: 10.1039/b822056p

N-Heterocyclic carbene containing complexes in catalysis

Xavier Bantreil, Julie Broggi and Steven P. Nolan

In this report, recent advancements in metal-catalysed homogeneous transformations involving N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) are described. In spite of the efficiency of NHCs in organocatalysis1 and their advantageous properties in coordination chemistry,2 and because of the ever growing interest in NHC chemistry and space limitations, the focus of this report is transition-metal mediated catalysis.