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Functionalised Saturated-Backbone Carbene Ligands: Yttrium and Uranyl Alkoxy–Carbene Complexes and Bicyclic Carbene–Alcohol Adducts

✍ Scribed by Polly L. Arnold; Ian J. Casely; Zoë R. Turner; Christopher D. Carmichael


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2008
Tongue
English
Weight
394 KB
Volume
14
Category
Article
ISSN
0947-6539

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✦ Synopsis


Abstract

A new and modular route to bidentate ligands that combines an alkoxide with a saturated backbone N‐heterocyclic carbene (NHC) is presented. The bi(heterocyclic) compounds are formally the addition product of a saturated NHC and the alcohol group of the N__‐__functionalised arm. Using these compounds, the synthesis and structural characterisation of the first electropositive metal complexes of saturated N‐heterocyclic carbenes has been achieved, and examples structurally characterised for the yttrium(III) and the uranyl [UO~2~]^2+^ cations.