Copper N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) complexes as carbene transfer reagents

摘要

A method is described that makes use of easily prepared, inexpensive copper synthons as N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) transfer agents to generate catalytically relevant gold and palladium complexes.rnTransition metal catalysed reactions represent powerful synthetic tools. Cross-coupling reactions permitting the creation of carbon-carbon bond using palladium as catalyst are amongst the most important and have found numerous applications in the pharmaceutical industry, in the synthesis of natural products and liquid crystals.