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SUBMITTER: Lin BL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2992331 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Organometallics 20100901 17
The non-innocent behaviors of NHC ligands have attracted wide attention due to their important implications for catalyst designs and reaction mechanisms. Herein, we report facile C(carbene)-halogen reductive eliminations from NHC copper halide complexes at RT under oxidative conditions. Density functional calculations on a simplified model system suggest that the reactions occur through oxidation of Cu(I) to Cu(III) species followed by C(carbene)-halogen reductive eliminations from NHC Cu(III) h ...[more]