1. Mono-, Di-, and Trinuclear Luminescent Silver(I) and Gold(I) N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes Derived from the Picolyl- Substituted Methylimidazolium Salt: 1-Methyl-3-(2-pyridinylmethyl)-1H- imidazolium Tetrafluoroborate Inorg. Chem. 2005, 44, 6558-6566 Vincent J. Catalano and Adam L. Moore

3. Figure 1. X-ray structural drawing of the cationic portion of [Ag(CH 3 -im(CH 2 py)) 2 ]BF 4 (1) with 50% thermal ellipsoids. The hydrogen atoms were omitted for clarity. 1H NMR (300 MHz, CD 3 CN, 25 °C): δ8.47 (d, 1H), 7.72 (m, 1H),7.27-7.16 (m, 4H), 5.36 (s, 2H), 3.78 (s, 3H).

4. Silver N-heterocyclic carbene complexes as initiators for bulk ring-opening polymerization (ROP) of L-lactides Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 2007 1672–1682 Samantaray Manoja K., Katiyar Vimal, Pang Keliang, Nanavati Hemant,Ghosh Prasenjit

5. Fig. 2. ORTEP of (2) with thermal ellipsoids drawn at 50% probability level. Solvent molecules present in the unit cell are not shown. Hydrogen atoms on carbon are omitted for clarity. 1 H NMR (CDCl 3, 400 MHz, 25 o C), d 11.0 (br, 1H, NH); 7.75 (d, 2H, 3 J HH = 8 Hz, o-C6H5);7.34 (s, 1H, NCHCHN); 7.16 (t, 2H, 3 J HH = 8 Hz, m-C 6 H 5 ); 6.97 (t, 1H, 3JHH = 7 Hz, p-C6H5); 6.73 (s, 1H,NCHCHN); 6.72 (s, 2H, m- C6H2{2,4,6-Me3}); 5.35 (s, 2H, CH2); 2.32 (s, 3H, p-C6H2{2,4,6-Me3}); 1.60 (s,6H, o-C6H2{2,4,6-Me3}).

6. Synthesis and Characterization of Water-Soluble Silver and Palladium Imidazol-2-ylidene Complexes with Noncoordinating Anionic Substituents Organometallics 2006, 25, 5151-5158 Moore Lucas R., Cooks Sheritta M., Anderson Matthew S., Schanz Hans-J Ö rg, Scott Griffin T., Robin D. Rogers, Kirk Marion C., and Shaughnessy Kevin H.

8. 1H NMR (360 MHz, D2O): δ 7.55 (s, 1H), 7.49 (s, 1H), 4.65 (t, J = 6.0 Hz, 2H), 4.25 (t, J = 6.9 Hz, 2H), 1.88 (t, J = 7.7 Hz, 2H), 1.35 (quint,J = 6.9 Hz, 2H), 0.96 (t, J = 7.74, 6.9, 3H).

9. Empirical formula C20 H36 Ag F6 N4 P Temperature 298(2) K Space group P 21/c Unit cell dimensions a = 12.0900(6) Åα = 90 o b = 21.5442(11) Åβ = 109.854(10) o c = 11.1978(6) Åγ = 90 o Volume2743.3(2) Å 3 Final R indices [I>2sigma(I)] R1 = 0.0608, wR2 = 0.1791

10. The Ag ….. Ag distance of 3.759 Å > 3.40 Å noninteraction. 3.40 (The sum of van der Waals radii of two Ag atoms). angles [deg] C(1) -Ag(1)-C(11) 177.16 N(1)-C(1)-N(2) 104.60 N(13)-C(11)-N(14) 104.67 bond lengths [Å] Ag(1)-C(1) 2.080 Ag(1)-C(11) 2.083

11. bond lengths [Å] Ag(1)-C(1) 2.080 Ag(1)-C(11) 2.083 angles [ o ] C(1) -Ag(1)-C(11) 177.16 N(1)-C(1)-N(2) 104.60 N(13)-C(11)-N(14) 104.67 Sunoj Raghavan B., Ghosh Prasenjit et al. Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2006, 2975–2984