The invention provides a novel method for synthesizing transition metal carbene complexes useful as olefin metathesis catalysts. The method is a convenient one-pot synthesis in which transition metal carbenes are prepared in high yield from readily available starting materials via a dihydrogen complex containing two different anionic ligands, preferably a phosphine and a heteroatom-stabilized carbene. The invention additionally provides a method for synthesizing precursors to carbene ligands useful, inter alia, in the aforementioned one-pot synthesis. The precursors are in the form of trichloromethyl adducts of the formula L
1
-CCl
3
, where L
1
is a heteroatom-stabilized carbene ligand, and are prepared by contacting an unsaturated, ionized analog of L-CCl
3
with a non-nucleophilic base in the presence of chloroform.
本发明提供了一种合成可用作烯烃偏析催化剂的过渡
金属碳烯配合物的新方法。该方法是一种方便的单锅合成法,通过含有两种不同阴离子
配体(最好是膦和杂原子稳定的碳烯)的二氢络合物,用容易获得的起始材料高产制备过渡
金属碳烯。此外,本发明还提供了一种合成碳烯
配体前体的方法,尤其适用于上述单锅合成法。前体的形式为三
氯甲基加合物,其式为 L
1
-CCl
3
其中 L
1
是一种杂原子稳定的碳烯
配体,其制备方法是将 L-CCl
3
与非亲核碱在
氯仿存在下接触制备而成。