“…Most of the polycarbenes reported so far are bidentate (C, C) biscarbene, or pincer (tridentatemer, C, N, C) ligands (Scheme 1) which were initially coordinated to palladium and subsequently to other Pt-group metals such as Rh, 3,5,6,8,9,15,18 Ru, 2,7 and Ir. 10,15,19,20 The catalytic properties of these metal complexes were explored in a variety of reactions (hydrogen transfer, 2,5,19 alkene oxidation, 2 hydrosilylation, 5,10,17 C-C couplings, 4,13,21 hydroformylation, 18 etc.). Despite the fact that the number of polyheterocyclic carbenes is continuously increasing, the design of such ligands with a tripodal topology is restricted to a few articles describing their coordination to Fe, 22 Ag, 11 and Tl.…”