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CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL
Volume 18, Issue 52, Pages 16938-16946Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201202840
Keywords
boranes; carbenes; frustrated Lewis pairs; noncovalent interactions; small-molecule activation
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [TA 189/9-1]
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Tris[3,5-bis(trifluoromethyl)phenyl]borane reacts with the sterically demanding Arduengo carbenes 1,3-di-tert-butylimidazolin-2-ylidene and 1,3-bis(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)imidazolin-2-ylidene to form isolable normal adducts. In the case of 1,3-di-tert-butylimidazolin-2-ylidene, the adduct exhibits dynamic behaviour in solution and frustrated-Lewis-pair (FLP) reactivity. Fast cleavage of dihydrogen and THF, the C?H activation of phenylacetylene, and carbon dioxide fixation were achieved by using solutions of this adduct in benzene. This adduct is stable at room temperature in the absence of suitable substrates; however, thermal rearrangement into an abnormal carbeneborane adduct can be observed. In contrast, the 1,3-bis(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)imidazolin-2-ylidene adduct exhibits no evidence of FLP reactivity or of dissociation in solution. DFT calculations confirmed the experimental behaviour and stability of these carbeneborane adducts.
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