Synthesis and catalytic activity of cyclic(alkyl)(amino) carbene gold(I) complexes

INOR 285

Shazia Kousar, shazia_hej@hotmail.com, Vincent Lavallo, Guido D. Frey, guido@ucr.edu, Bruno Donnadieu, and Guy Bertrand. Department of Chemistry, University of California Riverside, UCR/CNRS Joint Research Laboratory, UMR 2282, Riverside, CA 92521-0403
Recently stable cyclic(alkyl)(amino) carbenes (CAACs) have emerged as powerful new ligands for transition metal catalysts. Compared to cyclic di(amino) carbene (NHC), they are stronger δ-donors and offer more diverse steric environments at the ensuing metal center. The sp3 carbon adjacent to the carbene center allows for fine tuning of the steric environment around metal centre. We present here a variety of CAAC-substituted gold(I) complexes which mediate entirely new catalytic reactions.
 

Organometallic Catalysts
7:00 PM-10:00 PM, Sunday, August 19, 2007 BCEC -- Exhibit Hall - B2, Poster

Sci-Mix
8:00 PM-10:00 PM, Monday, August 20, 2007 BCEC -- Exhibit Hall - B2, Sci-Mix

Division of Inorganic Chemistry

The 234th ACS National Meeting, Boston, MA, August 19-23, 2007