N-Heterocyclic carbenes – catalysts for the preparation of polyhedral silsesquioxanes?

Dalton Transactions Pub Date: 2013-05-03 DOI: 10.1039/C3DT50968K

Abstract

N-Heterocyclic carbenes could be used as powerful catalysts for the preparation of various polyhedral silsesquioxanes. NHCs also catalyze a rearrangement of existing cages and a scrambling between two different cages at a concentration as low as 1 mol%.

Graphical abstract: N-Heterocyclic carbenes – catalysts for the preparation of polyhedral silsesquioxanes
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