Department of Chemistry: Metalorganics and Inorganic Materials, Technische Universität Berlin, Strasse des 17. Juni 135, Sekr. C2, 10623 Berlin, Germany.
Chemistry. 2013 Jan 2;19(1):40-62. doi: 10.1002/chem.201203072. Epub 2012 Dec 11.
This account is a review on the synthesis and transition-metal coordination chemistry of N-heterocyclic silylenes (NHSi's) over the last 20 years till the present time (2012). Recently, fascinating and novel synthetic methods have been developed to access transition-metal-NHSi complexes as an emerging class of compounds with a wealth of intriguing reactivity patterns. The striking influence of coordinating NHSi's to transition-metal complex fragments affording different reactivities to the "free" NHSi is a connecting theme ("leitmotif") throughout the review, and highlights the potential of these compounds which lie at the interface of contemporary main-group and classical organometallic chemistry towards new molecular catalysts for small-molecule activation.
这是一篇关于 N-杂环硅烯（NHSi's）的合成及过渡金属配位化学的综述，综述时间跨度为过去 20 年到 2012 年。近年来，人们开发出了引人注目的新颖合成方法，用以获得过渡金属-NHSi 配合物，此类化合物作为一个新兴的化合物类别，具有丰富的有趣的反应模式。配位 NHSi 对过渡金属配合物片段的显著影响，赋予了“游离” NHSi 不同的反应性，这是贯穿整个综述的一个主题（“主导动机”），突出了这些化合物的潜力，它们处于当代主族和经典有机金属化学的交叉点，为小分子活化的新型分子催化剂提供了可能。
