ItOct (I<i>t</i>Octyl) – pushing the limits of ItBu: highly hindered electron-rich N-aliphatic N-heterocyclic carbenes-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

ItOct (ItOctyl) – pushing the limits of ItBu: highly hindered electron-rich N-aliphatic N-heterocyclic carbenes

Published:2023 Issue:19 Volume:14 Page:5141-5147
ISSN:2041-6520
Container-title:Chemical Science
language:en
Short-container-title:Chem. Sci.

Author:

Rahman Md. Mahbubur¹,Meng Guangrong¹,Bisz Elwira²^ORCID,Dziuk Błażej³^ORCID,Lalancette Roger¹,Szostak Roman⁴^ORCID,Szostak Michal¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Chemistry, Rutgers University, 73 Warren Street, Newark, NJ 07102, USA

2. Department of Chemistry, Opole University, 48 Oleska Street, Opole 45-052, Poland

3. Department of Chemistry, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Norwida 4/6 14, Wroclaw 50-373, Poland

4. Department of Chemistry, Wroclaw University, F. Joliot-Curie 14, Wroclaw 50-383, Poland

Abstract

We report the synthesis, structural characterization and catalytic activity of ItOct (ItOctyl), C2-symmetric, higher homologues of ItBu. Replacement of the t-Bu side chain with t-Oct results in the highest steric volume of N-alkyl N-heterocyclic carbenes reported to date.

Funder

National Science Foundation

National Institutes of Health

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Narodowe Centrum Nauki

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

General Chemistry

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2023/SC/D3SC01006F

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