N,S-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes

Sheau W. Chien; Swee K. Yen; T. S. Andy Hor

doi:10.1071/CH10077

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N,S-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes

Sheau W. Chien ^A , Swee K. Yen ^A and T. S. Andy Hor ^A ^B ^C

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^A Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, 117543, Singapore.

^B Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), Agency for Science, Technology and Research, 3 Research Link, 117602, Singapore.

^C Corresponding author. Email: andyhor@nus.edu.sg

Sheau Wei Chien obtained her B.Sc. from Murdoch University, Western Australia, and joined Hor’s group at NUS in 2001. She is currently a Research Assistant with an interest in organometallic synthesis. In 2009, she received the Outstanding Mentor Award from the Science Mentorship Programme of NUS and Ministry of Education. She is the first author of the review on 1,1′-bis(diphenylphosphino)ferrocene in Ferrocene: Ligands, Materials & Biomolecules.

Swee Kuan Yen was born in Penang, Malaysia, in 1979. She obtained her B.Sc. and M.Sc. from the University of Technology of Malaysia (Malaysia). She completed a Ph.D. study from 2004 to 2009 on metal complexes of N,S-heterocyclic carbenes under the advisory of Hor and Huynh at NUS. Her awards include the poster prizes at the 9th International Symposium for Chinese Organic Chemists and 6th International Symposium for Chinese Inorganic Chemists (December 2006) and the International Conference on Green and Sustainable Chemistry (March 2009). She was a visiting scholar at Cavell’s laboratory at Cardiff University (UK). She is currently a Research Fellow at the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering of NUS.

Andy Hor (D.Phil(Oxon), D.Sc.(Lond)) is Professor of Chemistry and Fellow of the Teaching Academy of the National University of Singapore (NUS) and President of the Singapore National Institute of Chemistry. He has published over 250 papers in heterometallic synthesis, homogeneous catalysis, and supramolecular assembly with about 4000 citations and a current h-index of 30. He is the Associate Editor (Commissioning) of Aust. J. Chem. and member of the advisory panels of Dalton Trans., Chem. Asian J., and Inorg. Chim. Acta. He chairs the 41st International Coordination Chemistry Conference (ICCC) to be held in Singapore in 2014. He has supervised >60 graduate, >100 final-year undergraduate, and >200 school students. He is married to Beng with three daughters (Carys, Dilys, Eilis).

Australian Journal of Chemistry 63(5) 727-741 https://doi.org/10.1071/CH10077
Submitted: 13 February 2010 Accepted: 20 April 2010 Published: 21 May 2010

Abstract

This Review describes an important subclass of N-heterocyclic carbene complexes with thiazol-2-ylidenes ligands with only one exocyclic substituent on the thiazole ring. It highlights the synthetic, structural, and catalytic properties of these rapidly emerging complexes.

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N,S-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes

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