Abstract
Publisher Summary This chapter explores that one of the central objectives of the study of chemistry is sufficient knowledge to permit the forecast of the chemical and physical properties of a substance directly and reliably from its structure. This objective has been achieved to a remarkable degree for the host of isolable compounds that have been prepared and investigated. The chapter reviews the electronic and structural features that underlie all of carbene chemistry. It introduces the set of related aromatic carbenes that are the basis for our dissection of the effects of structure on carbene properties. The chemical and spectroscopic techniques and procedures used to probe these carbenes are described and explained briefly. Then, the results of the application of these probes to the chosen carbenes are presented. The relation of a carbene's structure to its chemical and physical properties is placed within the predictive framework of molecular orbital theory. The objective of this chapter is to present sufficient information to forecast the properties of an aromatic carbene directly and reliably from its structure.
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