When NHC Ligands Make a Difference in Gold Catalysis

David Gatineau , Jean-Philippe Goddard (1) , Virginie Mouriès-Mansuy (2) , Louis Fensterbank (2)

1 IPCM - Institut Parisien de Chimie Moléculaire
2 IPCM - Institut Parisien de Chimie Moléculaire

Thanks to their unique electronic and steric properties, carbene ligands offer highly valuable features for catalysis, including homogenous gold catalysis. The use of carbene-gold complexes has improved existing reactions, either by modifying reactivity modes or by leading to highly asymmetric processes. These topics will be discussed on the basis of selected examples.

Mots clés: asymmetric catalysis; carbenes; catalysis; electrophilic activation; gold

Domaines: Chimie organique

David Gatineau, Jean-Philippe Goddard, Virginie Mouriès-Mansuy, Louis Fensterbank. When NHC Ligands Make a Difference in Gold Catalysis. Israel Journal of Chemistry, 2013, 53 (11-12, SI), pp.892-900. ⟨10.1002/ijch.201300059⟩. ⟨hal-01397616⟩