Unit 15:Organometallics
Schrock carbenes
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105.3 Catalysis by organometallic compounds
105.3.1 Metathesis
Richard Schrock^2 (MIT, USA) and Robert Grubbs^3 (CalTech, USA) received 2005 Nobel
prize for their work on the subject. Metathesis is theexchange of the terminationbetween
two alkenes [Grubbs05]
Figure 200
It occurs via the carbene species nowaday known asSchrock’s carbenes
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- [Grubbs05] Grubbs, Olefin metathesis,Tetrahedron
2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Schrock
3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_H._Grubbs