Susan M. Oldham, B. Scott, W. Oldham
2006
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Applied Organometallic Chemistry
Abstract
The N-heterocyclic carbene, 1,3-dimesityl-imidazol-2-ylidene (IMes) reacts with tetrahydrofuran (THF) in the presence of an oxidizing uranyl triflate complex, UO2(OTf)2(thf)3 (−OTf = −OSO2CF3), to give 1,4-bis(1,3-dimesityl-2-imidazolium)-1,3-butadiene bis(trifluoromethanesulfonate), formally understood as the coupling product of two equivalents of IMes with [CHCHCHCH](OTf)2. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.