Recent advances in the development of alkyne metathesis catalysts

• DOI: 10.3762/bjoc.7.12
• Publication Date: 2011-01-18T13:47:53Z
• Authors: Xian Wu; Matthias Tamm
• Keywords: Alkyne; Salt metathesis reaction

The number of well-defined molybdenum and tungsten alkylidyne complexes that are able to catalyze alkyne metathesis reactions efficiently has been significantly expanded in recent years.The latest developments this field featuring highly active imidazolin-2-iminato- silanolate-alkylidyne outlined review.