Royal Society of Chemistry, Chemical Communications, 89(49), p. 10483
DOI: 10.1039/c3cc45488f
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A one-pot procedure for the synthesis of [Cu(X)(NHC)] (X = Cl, Br, I) is reported. The reaction is applicable to a wide range of saturated and unsaturated NHC ligands, is scalable and proceeds under mild conditions using technical grade solvents in air.