Influence of bulky yet flexible N-heterocyclic carbene ligands in gold catalysis

• Alba Collado,
• Scott R. Patrick,
• Danila Gasperini,
• Sebastien Meiries and
• Steven P. Nolan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 1809–1814, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.196

• transformations has been investigated. Keywords: catalysis; flexible and bulky ligands; gold; ligand design; N-heterocyclic carbenes; Introduction Homogeneous gold catalysis has witnessed an exponential growth in the last 15 years [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]. Gold complexes have been shown to be