Stable carbenes have played an important role in homogeneous catalysis over the last two decades, and have more recently gained popularity as organocatalysts and small molecule activators. This presentation will discuss our efforts to synthesize Janus-type biscarbenes which ultimately led to the discovery of a novel, persistent amino-amido carbene. Reactivity studies with small molecules, coupled with DFT and IR analyses indicate that this carbene exhibits reactivity intermediate of the highly popular cyclic alkyl amino carbenes and diamidocarbenes.

Synthesis and reactivity studies of a novel persistent amino-amido carbene

243rd National Meeting (2012)

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