N-Heterocyclic Carbenes: Reagents, Not Just Ligands!

✍ Scribed by Vijay Nair; Santhamma Bindu; Vellalath Sreekumar

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 42 KB
• Volume: 44
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0044-8249
• DOI: 10.1002/anie.200590041

✦ Synopsis

While referring to Breslow's work on catalysis by nucleophilic carbenes derived from thiamine and model systems, the authors inadvertently left out his work on imidazolium and oxazolium ions. [1] The authors also wish to emphasize that Breslow was the first to observe catalysis by nucleophilic carbenes of any kind. In Equation ( 18), which refers to work by Enders et al., the reference should be [32]. The references associated with Equation ( 19) are [32] and [33]. The omissions and errors are regretted by the authors.