Dihydroimidazol-2-ylidene
Dihydroimidazol-2-ylidene is a hypothetical organic compound with formula C3H6N2. It would be a heterocyclic compound, formally derived from imidazolidine with two hydrogen atoms removed from carbon number 2, leaving two vacant chemical bonds — which makes it a carbene.
Although carbenes in general are extremely short-lived, some derivatives of this compound are surprisingly stable, and form an important class of the persistent carbenes. They include the first stable carbenes postulated by Hans-Werner Wanzlick around 1960.
They also include an example of the imidazolin-2-ylidene reported by A.J. Arduengo in 1995.
