The role of silver additives in gold-mediated C–H functionalisation

• Scott R. Patrick,
• Ine I. F. Boogaerts,
• Sylvain Gaillard,
• Alexandra M. Z. Slawin and
• Steven P. Nolan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 892–896, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.102

• complexes bearing N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHC) [9][10] as supporting ligands has enabled the isolation of a “golden synthon”, [Au(OH)(IPr)] 1 (IPr = 1,3-bis(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)imidazol-2-ylidene), that is able to participate in metalation reactions with aromatic C–H bonds (Scheme 1) [11]. The reactivity

Gold-catalyzed naphthalene functionalization

• Pedro J. Pérez,
• M. Mar Díaz-Requejo and
• Iván Rivilla

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 653–657, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.77

• Abstract The complexes IPrMCl (IPr = 1,3-bis(diisopropylphenyl)imidazol-2-ylidene, M = Cu, 1a; M = Au, 1b), in the presence of one equiv of NaBAr'4 (Ar' = 3,5-bis(trifluoromethyl)phenyl), catalyze the transfer of carbene groups: C(R)CO2Et (R = H, Me) from N2C(R)CO2Et to afford products that depend on the

• found that the gold complex IPrAuCl (1b) (IPr = 1,3-bis(diisopropylphenyl)imidazol-2-ylidene) in the presence of one equiv of NaBAr'4 (Ar' = 3,5-bis(trifluoromethyl)phenyl) induced the functionalization of benzene with ethyl diazoacetate to give a mixture of a cycloheptatriene and ethyl 2-phenylacetate

Backbone tuning in indenylidene–ruthenium complexes bearing an unsaturated N-heterocyclic carbene

• César A. Urbina-Blanco,
• Xavier Bantreil,
• Hervé Clavier,
• Alexandra M. Z. Slawin and
• Steven P. Nolan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2010, 6, 1120–1126, doi:10.3762/bjoc.6.128

• 10.3762/bjoc.6.128 Abstract The steric and electronic influence of backbone substitution in IMes-based (IMes = 1,3-bis(2,4,6-trimethylphenyl)imidazol-2-ylidene) N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHC) was probed by synthesizing the [RhCl(CO)2(NHC)] series of complexes to quantify experimentally the Tolman

• -bis(2,4,6-trimethylphenyl)imidazol-2-ylidene) ligands possessing variable backbone substitution patterns, the corresponding series of [RhCl(CO)2(NHC)] complexes was synthesized. X-ray diffraction studies permit the determination of the percent buried volume (%Vbur) of these NHCs ligands and quantify