• closedAccess   1H-1,2,3-Triazol-5-ylidenes: Readily Available Mesoionic Carbenes 

      Guisado-Barrios, Gregorio; Soleilhavoup, Michele; Bertrand, Guy American Chemical Society (2018)
      Classical carbenes are usually described as neutral compounds featuring a divalent carbon with only six electrons in their valence shell. It was only in 1988 that our group prepared the first isolable example, in which the ...
    • openAccess   Improving Catalyst Activity in Hydrocarbon Functionalization by Remote Pyrene-Graphene Stacking 

      Ballestin, Pilar; Ventura Espinosa, David; Santiago Martín; Martín Solans, Santiago; Caballero, Ana; Mata Martínez, Jose A; Pérez, Pedro J. Wiley (2019)
      A copper complex bearing an N-heterocyclic carbene ligand with a pyrene "tail" attached to the backbone has been prepared and supported on reduced graphene oxide (rGO). The free and supported copper materials have been ...