RT Book,_Section T1 Vinyl Ruthenium Carbenes: Valuable Intermediates in Catalysis A1 Padín Santos, Damián A1 Varela Carrete, Jesús Ángel A1 Saá Rodríguez, Carlos K1 Alkynyl derivatives K1 Benzoxazines K1 Bicyclic compounds K1 Carbenes K1 Catalysis K1 Cyclization K1 Heterocycles K1 Ruthenium K1 Vinyl ruthenium carbenes AB Vinyl ruthenium carbenes are easily prepared from the neutral Ru(II) complex Cp*RuCl(cod) in the presence of functionalized alkynes and diazoalkanes. These intermediates have been proposed for several transformations in which the nature of the products are strongly dependent of the functionality on the alkyne sub-stituents. New modes of catalytic cyclizations due to the electrophilicity of these vinyl ruthenium carbene intermediates are presented in this chapter. Alkynyl ace-tals, ethers and amines gave rise to complex bicyclic structures, spiro- and fused, in an intramolecular redox, neutral process that involved [1,n]-hydrogen transfers/cy-clization. New catalytic heterocyclizations have been also achieved by trapping the in situ generated vinyl ruthenium carbenes with O- and N-nucleophiles from alkyn-als/alkynones and alkynylamines. PB Springer SN 978-981-10-3420-6 YR 2017 FD 2017 LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/23356 UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/23356 LA eng NO Padín D., Varela J.A., Saá C. (2017) Vinyl Ruthenium Carbenes: Valuable Intermediates in Catalysis. In: Tomioka K., Shioiri T., Sajiki H. (eds) New Horizons of Process Chemistry (pp.89-102). Springer, Singapore NO NOTICE: This is the peer reviewed version of the following book chapter: Padín D., Varela J.A., Saá C. (2017) Vinyl Ruthenium Carbenes: Valuable Intermediates in Catalysis. In: Tomioka K., Shioiri T., Sajiki H. (eds) New Horizons of Process Chemistry (pp.89-102). Springer, Singapore. [doi: 10.1007/978-981-10-3421-3_7]. This book chapter may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Springer Terms and Conditions for self-archiving NO This work was supported by the Spanish MINECO (project CTQ2014-59015R), the Xunta de Galicia (project GRC2014/032) and the European Regional Development Fund (projects CTQ2014-59015R and GRC2014/032). We also thank the ORFEO-CINQA network (CTQ2014-51912REDC). D. P. thanks XUGA for a predoctoral contract DS Minerva RD 30 abr 2026