Meet the editors

Dr. Satyen Saha received a BSc and MSc in Chemistry from Jadavpur University, India, in 1994 and 1996, respectively. He obtained a Ph.D. in Photochemistry from Hyderabad Central University, India, in 2002. He completed postdoctoral research at the University of Tokyo, Japan, and Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA. He received a postdoctoral fellowship and bridge fellowship for foreign researchers from the Japan Society

for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). Currently, he is a professor in the Department of Chemistry, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, India. His research interests include synthesis, structure (solid and liquid phases), Ionic liquids, NIR emitting materials, and photophysical studies (steady-state and time-resolved) of fluorescent molecules in condensed phases.

Dr. Arunava Manna is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry, Banaras Hindu University, India. He obtained his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Pennsylvania, USA. After graduating from CMU in 2015, he worked for a couple of years as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, working on synthesizing peptide libraries for the screening of small molecules.

Following this, Dr. Manna spent two years at Emory University, Georgia, USA, as a postdoc working on bio-catalysis. His research interests lie at the interface of organic chemistry and biology.

Contents

Properties and Applications

Basic Information about Carbenes

*by Nuriye Tuna Subasi*

*Kotra Vijay and Varala Ravi*

*and Naceur Hamdi*

Catalysis

and Cytotoxicity Potential Studies

*by Hideto Miyabe*

**Preface XI**

**Chapter 1 1**

**Chapter 2 29**

**Chapter 3 43**

**Chapter 4 63**

**Chapter 5 81**

**Chapter 6 95**

**Chapter 7 113**

Imidazolium-Based N-Heterocyclic Carbenes (NHCs) and Metal-Mediated

Recent Development of Carbenes: Synthesis, Structure, Photophysical

*by Arunava Manna, Abhineet Verma, Sumit K. Panja and Satyen Saha*

Recent Advances in Cooperative N-Heterocyclic Carbene Catalysis

*by Ruchi Bharti, Monika Verma, Ajay Thakur and Renu Sharma*

Late Transition Metal (LTM)-NHC Catalyzed Transformations of Renewable Chemicals to Fine Chemicals, Fuels, and Intermediates *by Kurra Mohan, Bollikolla Hari Babu, Khandapu Bala Murali Krishna,* 

Novel N-Heterocyclic Carbene Silver (I) Complexes: Synthesis, Structural Characterization, Antimicrobial, Antioxidant

*by Vittal B. Gudimetla, Bony P. Joy and Sudeep Paul*

*by Ichraf Slimani, Khaireddine Dridi, Ismail Özdemir, Nevin Gürbüz* 

N-Heterocyclic Carbenes (NHCs): An Introduction
