Phosphinoborylenes as stable sources of fleeting borylenes
Conor Pranckevicius, Marco Weber, Ivo Krummenacher, Ashwini K. Phukan, Holger Braunschweig
Abstract
A room-temperature stable phosphinoborylene provides a source of a reactive two-coordinate borylene <italic>via</italic> dissociation of a labile phosphine upon gentle heating. Ligand exchange, the capture of unsaturated molecules, and oxidation have been explored.
Topics & Concepts
PhosphineDissociation (chemistry)ChemistryMoleculePhotochemistryComputational chemistryOrganic chemistryCatalysisOrganoboron and organosilicon chemistrySynthesis and characterization of novel inorganic/organometallic compoundsCatalytic Cross-Coupling Reactions