@article{epprod3798,
          volume = {26},
          number = {22},
           month = {["lib/utils:month\verb1_13798" not defined]},
          author = {AT Normand and KJ Hawkes and ND Clement and KJ Cavell and BF Yates},
            note = {Copyright \copyright 2007 American Chemical Society.},
           title = {Atom-efficient catalytic coupling of imidazolium salts with ethylene involving Ni-NHC complexes as intermediates: a combined experimental and DFT study},
       publisher = {American Chemical Society},
            year = {2007},
         journal = {Organometallics},
           pages = {5252--5363},
             url = {http://eprints.utas.edu.au/3798/},
        abstract = {The coupling reaction between azolium salts (N-heterocyclic carbene precursors) and ethylene, catalyzed
by zerovalent nickel complexes, has been investigated using a combination of experiment and density
functional theory (DFT). The reaction proceeds via a redox mechanism involving the generation of Nicarbene
intermediates. The experimental studies employed an in situ catalyst system, derived from Ni-
(COD)2 and a variety of phosphine and N-heterocyclic carbene spectator ligands, to couple 1-propyl-3-
methylimidazolium bromide (ionic liquid) and other azolium salts with ethylene. The DFT studies employed
the simpler dimethylimidazolium salt to model the reaction.}
}