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  • Title: N-heterocyclic carbenes bearing two, one and no nitrogen atoms at the ylidene carbon: insight from theoretical calculations.
    Author: Tukov AA, Normand AT, Nechaev MS.
    Journal: Dalton Trans; 2009 Sep 21; (35):7015-28. PubMed ID: 20449144.
    Abstract:
    Electronic structure, thermodynamic stability and ligand properties in LRh(CO)2Cl complexes of a series of N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) were studied at the DFT level. The systems under study are: imidazolin-2-ylidene (1), imidazolidin-2-ylidene (2), cyclic(alkyl)(amino)carbene (CAAC, 3), pyrazolin-3-ylidene (4), pyridin-2-ylidene (5), and pyridin-4-ylidene (6). The main structural feature influencing the properties of these species is the number of nitrogen atoms at the ylidene carbon. A decrease of the number of nitrogen atoms on the one hand leads to an increase in donor ability and ligand-to-metal bond strength, but lowers the stability of the NHC on the other hand. The number of nitrogen atoms can be taken as a key parameter for the classification of carbenes into 2N-NHC, 1N-NHC and r-NHC (r = remote).
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