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Two N-heterocyclic carbene ligands at once may be one too many, at least if you intend to have highly active ruthenium catalysts for olefin metathesis. Density functional calculations recommend the replacement of the second carbene ligand in the successful ROMP catalysts 1 by coordinatively more labile ligands as in 2 or 3. In both cases, the catalytic activity is greatly improved.

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Dedicated to Professor Wilhelm Keim on the occasion of his 65th birthdayThe Grignard cross-coupling mediated by nickel and palladium catalysts [1, 2] represents a useful synthetic approach to biaryls, terphenyls, and oligoaryls which are important

The different nature of carbene ligands is clearly demonstrated by the first ruthenium-based complexes 1, which contain both alkylidene and N-heterocyclic carbene moieties. The latter exhibit a pronounced Lewis base behavior. Moreover, this difference forms the basis of the high catalytic activities of these compounds in olefin metathesis reactions.

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