title: Oxazolines as chiral building blocks for imidazolium salts and N-heterocyclic carbene ligands.
abstract: Enantiomerically pure imidazolium triflates can be readily prepared from bioxazolines and oxazolineimines; deprotonation of imidazolium triflate 2 gives a chiral N-heterocyclic carbene that can act as a ligand in a catalytically active palladium complex.
authors.affiliation: Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz 1, 45470 Mülheim/Ruhr, Germany. glorius@mpi-muelheim.mpg.de
authors.forename: Frank
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Glorius
authors.forename: Gereon
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Altenhoff
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Goddard
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lehmann