New technologies in catalysis using base metals*
Bruce H. Lipshutz, Tom Butler, Bryan A. Frieman, Vladimir Kogan, Ching-Tien Lee, Asher Lower, Danielle M. Nihan, Benjamin R. Taft, and Anthony E. Tomaso Jr.
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
Abstract: Formation of C-C, C-N, and C-H bonds using three heterogeneous catalysts in the form of nickel-in-charcoal (Ni/C), nickel-on-graphite (Ni/Cg), and copper-in-charcoal (Cu/C) are described.
Keywords: heterogeneous catalysis; nickel-in-charcoal; nickel-on-graphite; copper-in-charcoal; asymmetric hydrosilylation, cross-couplings.
*Pure Appl. Chem. 78, 197-523. An issue of reviews and research papers based on lectures presented at the 13th IUPAC International Symposium on Organometallic Chemistry Directed Towards Organic Synthesis (OMCOS-13), Geneva, Switzerland, 17-21 July 2005.