Where to Find Publications and the NHC Textbook from The Huynh Group

The Huynh Group's website (carbene.de) is the place to start for both. The site reports 149 publications and 20+ years of research, and it provides a View Publications section for browsing the group's output. For the textbook, the site points to The Organometallic Chemistry of N-Heterocyclic Carbenes (Wiley, 2017), described there as the first textbook on NHCs, at 368 pages, with a "Learn more" link.

Publications from The Huynh Group

The group is led by Prof. Han Vinh Huynh at the National University of Singapore and works on N-heterocyclic carbene chemistry, from fundamental properties to catalytic applications.

What the site states about the publication record:

If you are looking for work on a specific topic, the group's stated research areas give you useful search terms:

• Ligand design — NHC, imine and amide ligands, donor-flexible frameworks, and new carbenes beyond classical NHCs
• Electronic parameters — the Huynh Electronic Parameters (HEPs)
• Catalysis — C–C coupling, C–H activation, hydroelementation, alcohol activation
• Organometallic precursors — precursor design for ALD and CVD thin-film deposition in the semiconductor industry

The NHC Textbook

The site presents one book as its main learning resource:

• Title: The Organometallic Chemistry of N-Heterocyclic Carbenes
• Publisher and year: Wiley, 2017
• Length: 368 pages
• Stated distinction: first textbook on NHCs
• How to reach it: a "Learn more" link on the site

The site does not state a price, format, or purchase channel for the book, so treat those as things to check at the publisher or a bookseller rather than assume from the site.

What Else Is Worth Knowing Before You Dig In

The group's signature contribution is the Huynh Electronic Parameters (HEPs) — unified scales for measuring the electronic donor strength of ligands using 13C NMR spectroscopy. According to the site, HEPs were introduced in 2009 for neutral monodentate ligands, then extended to bidentate ligands (HEP2) and anionic ligands (HEPx), and now cover hundreds of ligands.

This matters if you are reading the publications rather than just counting them: many of the group's papers use HEP values to compare ligand donor strength, so understanding the scale makes the catalysis and ligand-design work easier to follow. The site has a dedicated "Learn about HEP" entry point for that.

Practical Route Through the Site

1. Open carbene.de.
2. Use View Publications for the full list of the 149 papers.
3. Use the HEP section if you need the electronic-parameter background behind those papers.
4. Follow the Learn more link for the 2017 Wiley textbook if you want the book-length treatment.

One caveat: the site gives counts and descriptions but not a downloadable bibliography or an ordered publication list in the material available here, so expect to browse rather than export.