Recent Representative Advances on the Synthesis and Reactivity of <i>N</i> ‐Heterocyclic‐Carbene‐Supported Zinc Complexes

The present account reviews the most recent noteworthy developments on synthesis, structure and catalytic applications of Zn-NHC species, a class complexes that have attracted attention over past five to ten years due their enhanced robustness hydrolytic stability versus classical Zn organometallics. In particular, thanks NHC stabilization, access unprecedented species were recently achieved, including two-coordinate Zn(II) organocations thermally stable molecularly well-defined hydride opening way effective Zn-mediated hydro-silylation/-boration catalysis various unsaturated substrates under mild conditions. potential NHC−Zn for stabilization use in is only emerging vast array readily available structures should promote future field.