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Destruction of chemical warfare agent simulants by air and moisture stable metal NHC complexes

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DALTON TRANSACTIONS
Volume 47, Issue 8, Pages 2568-2574

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ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c7dt04805j

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  1. DSTL
  2. EPSRC [EP/J018139/1]
  3. UK Catalysis Hub [EP/K014714/1]
  4. European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union [740311]
  5. University of Edinburgh NMR spectroscopy department
  6. University of Edinburgh Mass spectrometry department
  7. European Research Council (ERC) [740311] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
  8. Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/K014714/1, EP/K014668/1, EP/J018139/1, EP/J018090/1] Funding Source: researchfish
  9. EPSRC [EP/K014668/1, EP/J018139/1, EP/K014714/1, EP/J018090/1] Funding Source: UKRI

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The cooperative effect of both NHC and metal centre has been found to destroy chemical warfare agent (CWA) simulants. Choice of both the metal and NHC is key to these transformations as simple, monodentate N-heterocyclic carbenes in combination with silver or vanadium can promote stoichiometric destruction, whilst bidentate, aryloxide-tethered NHC complexes of silver and alkali metals promote breakdown under mild heating. Iron-NHC complexes generated in situ are competent catalysts for the destruction of each of the three targetted CWA simulants.

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