In this hot article Robert Mulvey and colleagues investigate the coordination chemistry of NHC with s-block elements and the structural chemistry of organomagnesium compounds leading to some interesting discoveries:
N-Heterocyclic carbene stabilized adducts of alkyl magnesium amide, bisalkyl magnesium and Grignard reagents: trapping oligomeric organo s-block fragments with NHCs
Alan R. Kennedy, Robert E. Mulvey and Stuart D. Robertson
Dalton Trans., 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0DT00693A, Paper
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