Highlights recent discoveries in the development of rapid kinetic techniques that allow for direct visualization and state-of-the-art computational methods.

Bertrand\, Guy

Matrix isolation of highly electrophilic carbenes; observing invisible carbenes by trapping them with pyridine; carbenic philicty; approach to a persistent triplet carbene; diaminocarbenes; exploring structure and reactivity; stable versions of transient singlet carbines; the discovery and development of high oxidation state alkylidene complexes; Fischer carbene complexes in organic synthesis; from high-spin polycarbenes to carbene-based magnets.