@unpublished{SchmidtFantuzziArrowsmithetal.2020, author = {Schmidt, Uwe and Fantuzzi, Felipe and Arrowsmith, Merle and Hermann, Alexander and Prieschl, Dominic and Rempel, Anna and Engels, Bernd and Braunschweig, Holger}, title = {Tuneable reduction of cymantrenylboranes to diborenes or borylene-derived boratafulvenes}, series = {Chemical Communications}, journal = {Chemical Communications}, doi = {10.1039/D0CC06398C}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-222149}, year = {2020}, abstract = {Whereas the reduction of N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC)-stabilised cymantrenyldibromoboranes, (NHC)BBr\(_2\)Cym, in benzene results in formation of the corresponding diborenes (NHC)\(_2\)B\(_2\)Cym\(_2\), a change of solvent to THF yields a borylene of the form (NHC)\(_2\)BCym, stabilised through its boratafulvene resonance form.}, language = {en} } @unpublished{BoehnkeDellermannCeliketal.2018, author = {B{\"o}hnke, Julian and Dellermann, Theresa and Celik, Mehmet Ali and Krummenacher, Ivo and Dewhurst, Rian D. and Demeshko, Serhiy and Ewing, William C. and Hammond, Kai and Heß, Merlin and Bill, Eckhard and Welz, Eileen and R{\"o}hr, Merle I. S. and Mitric, Roland and Engels, Bernd and Meyer, Franc and Braunschweig, Holger}, title = {Isolation of diradical products of twisted double bonds}, series = {Nature Communications}, journal = {Nature Communications}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-160248}, year = {2018}, abstract = {Molecules containing multiple bonds between atoms—most often in the form of olefins—are ubiquitous in nature, commerce, and science, and as such have a huge impact on everyday life. Given their prominence, over the last few decades, frequent attempts have been made to perturb the structure and reactivity of multiply-bound species through bending and twisting. However, only modest success has been achieved in the quest to completely twist double bonds in order to homolytically cleave the associated π bond. Here, we present the isolation of double-bond-containing species based on boron, as well as their fully twisted diradical congeners, by the incorporation of attached groups with different electronic properties. The compounds comprise a structurally authenticated set of diamagnetic multiply-bound and diradical singly-bound congeners of the same class of compound.}, language = {en} }