Here the authors report Lewis acid-carbene adduct activation of C–H bonds in ethane, propane and n-butane under one atmospheric pressure and at room temperature with high selectivity.

The migration of alkyl to carbonyl is well known but we are interested in migrations of hydride, alkyl, and other groups to metal coordinated carbene in processes which result in new alkyl ligands. To ...

Eli Zysman-Colman (University of St Andrews) and Prof. Neil Robertson (University of Edinburgh). Their doctoral thesis described two- and three-coordinate copper(I) complexes bearing N-heterocyclic ...

It turns out that it is a cool carbene complex of the humble ruthenium that gets it just right. It is this kind of niche application - just a little in the just the right place that I think Wilkinson ...

There, Eliana will research to organic synthesis of quinazolinone-based carbene ligands with a PhD student at Heinrich Heine University. She is looking forward to engaging with German culture and ...