N-heterocyclic carbene embedded in an N-confused porphyrin framework.
A rhenium(I) complex of an N-heterocyclic carbene ligand embedded in an N-confused porphyrin core was serendipitously synthesized by the reaction of an inner-methylated N-confused porphyrin with Re(2)(CO)(10).
Toganoh
Motoki
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Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan.
Hihara
Takayoshi
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Furuta
Hiroyuki
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