N-Heterocyclic Carbenes
From Laboratory Curiosities to Efficient Synthetic Tools
2nd Edition
RSC Catalysis Series
Editor-in-Chief:
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Series Editors:
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Professor Jose Rodriguez, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA
Titles in the Series:
1: Carbons and Carbon Supported Catalysts in Hydroprocessing
2: Chiral Sulfur Ligands: Asymmetric Catalysis
3: Recent Developments in Asymmetric Organocatalysis
4: Catalysis in the Refining of Fischer–Tropsch Syncrude
5: Organocatalytic Enantioselective Conjugate Addition Reactions: A Powerful Tool for the Stereocontrolled Synthesis of Complex Molecules
6: N-Heterocyclic Carbenes: From Laboratory Curiosities to Efficient Synthetic Tools
7: P-Stereogenic Ligands in Enantioselective Catalysis
8: Chemistry of the Morita–Baylis–Hillman Reaction
9: Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer: A Carrefour of Chemical Reactivity Traditions
10: Asymmetric Domino Reactions
11: C–H and C–X Bond Functionalization: Transition Metal Mediation
12: Metal Organic Frameworks as Heterogeneous Catalysts
13: Environmental Catalysis Over Gold-Based Materials
14: Computational Catalysis
15: Catalysis in Ionic Liquids: From Catalyst Synthesis to Application
16: Economic Synthesis of Heterocycles: Zinc, Iron, Copper, Cobalt, Manganese and Nickel Catalysts
17: Metal Nanoparticles for Catalysis: Advances and Applications
18: Heterogeneous Gold Catalysts and Catalysis
19: Conjugated Linoleic Acids and Conjugated Vegetable Oils
20: Enantioselective Multicatalysed Tandem Reactions
21: New Trends in Cross-Coupling: Theory and Applications
22: Atomically-Precise Methods for Synthesis of Solid Catalysts
23: Nanostructured Carbon Materials for Catalysis
24: Heterocycles from Double-Functionalized Arenes: Transition Metal Catalyzed Coupling Reactions
25: Asymmetric Functionalization of C–H Bonds
26: Enantioselective Nickel-catalysed Transformations
27: N-Heterocyclic Carbenes: From Laboratory Curiosities to Efficient Synthetic Tools, 2nd edition
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N-Heterocyclic Carbenes
From Laboratory Curiosities to Efficient Synthetic Tools
2nd Edition
Edited by
Silvia Díez-González
Imperial College London, UK
Email: [email protected]
RSC Catalysis Series No. 27
Print ISBN: 978-1-78262-423-3
PDF eISBN: 978-1-78262-681-7
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ISSN: 1757-6725
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