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NATURE
Volume 510, Issue 7506, Pages 485-496Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nature13384
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- European Research Council under the European Community [25936]
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [SFB 858]
- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- Fonds der Chemischen Industrie
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The successful isolation and characterization of an N-heterocyclic carbene in 1991 opened up a new class of organic compounds for investigation. From these beginnings as academic curiosities, N-heterocyclic carbenes today rank among the most powerful tools in organic chemistry, with numerous applications in commercially important processes. Here we provide a concise overview of N-heterocyclic carbenes in modern chemistry, summarizing their general properties and uses and highlighting how these features are being exploited in a selection of pioneering recent studies.
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