{"title":"Nucleophilic carbenes as organocatalysts.","authors":"F Glorius, K Hirano","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>N-Heterocyclic carbenes (NHC) have become an important class of organocatalysts and class of ligands for transition-metal catalysis. In organocatalyzed umpolung reactions, thiazolium salt-derived NHC have been used successfully for decades. Even so, during recent years there has been an increased interest in NHC-catalyzed transformations and many new reactions have been developed. This article focuses on the use of NHC in the conjugate umpolung of alpha,beta-unsaturated aldehydes.</p>","PeriodicalId":87471,"journal":{"name":"Ernst Schering Foundation symposium proceedings","volume":" 2","pages":"159-81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Ernst Schering Foundation symposium proceedings","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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N-Heterocyclic carbenes (NHC) have become an important class of organocatalysts and class of ligands for transition-metal catalysis. In organocatalyzed umpolung reactions, thiazolium salt-derived NHC have been used successfully for decades. Even so, during recent years there has been an increased interest in NHC-catalyzed transformations and many new reactions have been developed. This article focuses on the use of NHC in the conjugate umpolung of alpha,beta-unsaturated aldehydes.