1 Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination, Institut de Chimie (UMR 7177 CNRS), Université de Strasbourg, 4 rue Blaise Pascal, F-67070, Strasbourg Cedex, France.
The Ag(I) and hemilabile Pd(II) carbene complexes obtained from novel thioether-functionalized imidazolium salts synthesised in one-step illustrate the diversity of coordination modes of these new S, C(NHC) ligands.