Reactivity of acyclic diaminocarbene ligands

摘要

Acyclic diaminocarbenes (ADCs) are powerful ligands with a broad application scope in organometallic chemistry, catalysis, photophysics and crystal engineering. Although the preparation and application of metal-ADC species are discussed in many reports, the reactivity of ADC ligands is much less scrutinised. However, studies emerged indicate that ADC ligands, in particular, those prepared via the metal mediated nucleophilic addition to isocyanides, can be further converted into various post-functionalised derivatives. In this review, we attempt for the first time to rationalise the most important reactivity modes of metal-ADC species reported up to date. (C) 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.