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What is a carbene?

What is a carbene? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (organic chemistry) Any short-lived, reactive species R2C:, especially the parent compound CH2: (also called methylene).
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This reaction has become synthetically useful since the discovery of various well-defined transition metal carbene complexes which can catalyse alkene metathesis.
It is based on N-heterocyclic carbene catalyst and a silane as the reducing agent.

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