Carbenes as Components

SCHEME 5.76 Synthesis of bicyclic lactones 95 starting from a MCR. 

SCHEME 5.79 Synthesis of tamibarotene 105 using robust Pd-NHC complex XXV. 

SCHEME 5.80 Application of XXVHI for the preparation of biologically interesting building blocks in carbohydrate chemistry. 

Bourissou, O. Guerret, F. P. Gabbai, G. Bertrand, Chem. Rev. 2000, 39, 39-91. Stable carbenes. 

Hoffmann, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 1971, 10, 529-590. Generation of carbenes by thermal cycloelimmation. 

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