Yves Canac

TL;DR: To overcome the problem of excessive steric hindrance, Glorius and co-workers have successfully developed ligands with “flexible steric bulk” using the conformational flexibility of cyclohexane.

TL;DR: Stable acyclic 4a and 4b, and cyclic alkyl amino carbenes 6 react with CO to afford amino ketenes 5a,b and 7, respectively, which are indefinitely stable at room temperature both in solution and in the solid state, whereas alkoxy ketenes have only been characterized at low temperature or by fast-spectroscopic methods.

TL;DR: It is reported that the peculiar steric and electronic properties of rigid CAAC ligands allow the preparation of low-coordinate metal complexes, hitherto not isolable with any other ligands.

TL;DR: By appending π-electron–donating amino groups to the triangular skeleton, a cyclopropenylidene derivative is prepared that is stable at room temperature and does not require a heteroatom adjacent to the electron-deficient carbon to confer stability.

TL;DR: The preliminary results on the scope of the thermally induced hydroiminiumation reaction and its application to the synthesis of a variety of CAAC precursors are reported, which have shown that CAACs can compete with N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs)[13] as ligands for transition-metal-based catalysts and also allow the preparation of very low coordinate transition- metal centers.