Pyranylidene carbene complexes bearing a pyran ring carbene ligand represent a unique kind of organometallic species due to their special structures and reactivity. In this review, we present a comprehensive summary on the synthesis and reactivity of pyranylidene carbene complexes during the past four decades.
2-pyranylidene carbene complexes, synthesis, reactivity
Citation:Wang Q F, Zhang W X, Lin C, et al. Advances in the synthesis and reactivity of 2-pyranylidene carbene complexes.Fischer-type carbene complexes are among the most important organometallic compounds, and these have experienced a considerable surge in recent times because of their widespread application in synthetic organic chemistry since the first carbene complex was reported by Fischer and coworkers in 1964 [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18]. During the course of the development of Fischer-type carbene complexes, unsaturated Fischer carbene complexes, in which unsaturated substituents are attached to the carbene carbon center, occupy an important status owing to their good reactivity in Michael-type reactions, cycloaddition reactions, transmetalation reactions. The strong electron-withdrawing property of the pentacarbonyl metal moiety and the electron-deficient property of the β-position carbon resulting from electron-transfer from the carbene center play a cooperative effect on the versatile reactivity of unsaturated Fischer carbene complexes [2-18]. 2-Pyranylidene metal carbene complexes bearing a pyran ring carbene ligand are a special kind of unsaturated Fischer carbene complex, that has received much less attention probably because of their limitation of the synthetic methodology. Recently, some important progress has been made *Corresponding author (email: zfxi@pku.edu.cn) by the chemical community. Here we give a comprehensive review of the synthesis and reactivity of the 2-pyranylidene metal carbene complex during the past four decades.