title: Rare-Earth-metal methylidene complexes.
abstract: Transition-metal carbene complexes have been known for about 50 years and widely applied as reagents and catalysts in organic transformations. In contrast, the carbene chemistry of the rare-earth metals is much less developed, but has attracted the research interest in the recent years. In this field rare-earth-metal alkylidene, especially methylidene, compounds are an emerging class of compounds with a high synthetic potential for organometallic chemistry and maybe in the future also for organic chemistry.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Engesserstrasse 15, 76131 Karlsruhe (Germany).
authors.forename: Jochen
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kratsch
authors.forename: Peter W
authors.initials: PW
authors.lastname: Roesky
keywords: carbene; lanthanides; methylidene; rare-earth metals