1207959-10-1Relevant articles and documents
Experimental and computational investigation of C-N bond activation in ruthenium N-heterocyclic carbene complexes
Haeller, L. Jonas L.,Page, Michael J.,Erhardt, Stefan,MacGregor, Stuart A.,Mahon, Mary F.,Naser, M. Abu,Velez, Andrea,Whittlesey, Michael K.
, p. 18408 - 18416 (2010)
A combination of experimental studies and density functional theory calculations is used to study C-N bond activation in a series of ruthenium N-alkyl-substituted heterocyclic carbene (NHC) complexes. These show that prior C-H activation of the NHC ligand