A Zintl Cluster for Transition Metal-Free Catalysis: C═O Bond Reductions
Bono van IJzendoorn, Saad F. Albawardi, Íñigo J. Vitórica‐Yrezábal, George F. S. Whitehead, John E. McGrady, Meera Mehta
Abstract
) was efficiently and selectively reduced to methoxyborane. This work represents the first examples of Zintl catalysis where the transformation is transition metal-free and where the cluster is noninnocent.
Topics & Concepts
ChemistryHydroborationTransition metalCatalysisCluster (spacecraft)BoronOrganic chemistryProgramming languageComputer scienceOrganoboron and organosilicon chemistryAsymmetric Hydrogenation and CatalysisSynthesis and characterization of novel inorganic/organometallic compounds