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ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION
Volume 53, Issue 11, Pages 2826-2851Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201305972
Keywords
asymmetric synthesis; homogeneous catalysis; crystallography; transition metals; eta(3)-coordination
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- U.S. National Science Foundation
- Evelyn Laing McBain Fellowship
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The coordination of transition metals to organic fragments can yield complexes with fascinating and unexpected binding patterns. The study of metal-benzyl complexes has demonstrated the feasibility of eta(3)-coordination, which results in a dearomatized ring. These complexes also offer insight into reaction mechanisms as proposed intermediates in catalytic cycles. In this Review we discuss the synthesis and characterization of these complexes with late transition metals and the subsequent development of catalytic benzylic functionalization methods, including asymmetric variants.
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