@unpublished{SchmidtFantuzziArrowsmithetal.2020, author = {Schmidt, Uwe and Fantuzzi, Felipe and Arrowsmith, Merle and Hermann, Alexander and Prieschl, Dominic and Rempel,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} } @article{SchmidtWernerArrowsmithetal.2020, author = {Schmidt, Uwe and Werner, Luis and Arrowsmith, Merle and Deissenberger, Andrea and Hermann, Alexander and Hofmann, Alexander and Ullrich, Stefan and Mattock, James D. and Vargas, Alfredo and Braunschweig, Holger}, title = {trans-Selective Insertional Dihydroboration of a cis-Diborene: Synthesis of Linear sp\(^3\)-sp\(^2\)-sp\(^3\)-Triboranes and Subsequent Cationization}, series = {Angewandte Chemie International Edition}, volume = {59}, journal = {Angewandte Chemie International Edition}, number = {1}, doi = {10.1002/anie.201911645}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-208090}, pages = {325-329}, year = {2020}, abstract = {The reaction of aryl- and amino(dihydro)boranes with dibora[2]ferrocenophane 1 leads to the formation 1,3-trans -dihydrotriboranes by formal hydrogenation and insertion of a borylene unit into the B=B bond. The aryltriborane derivatives undergo reversible photoisomerization to the cis -1,2-μ-H-3-hydrotriboranes, while hydride abstraction affords cationic triboranes, which represent the first doubly base-stabilized B3H4\(^+\) analogues.}, language = {en} } @unpublished{ArrowsmithDoemlingSchmidtetal.2019, author = {Arrowsmith, Merle and D{\"o}mling, Michael and Schmidt, Uwe and Werner, Luis and Castro, Abril C. and Jim{\´e}nez-Halla, J. Oscar C. and M{\"u}ssig, Jonas and Prieschl, Dominic and Braunschweig, Holger}, title = {Spontaneous trans-Selective Transfer Hydrogenation of Apolar B=B Double Bonds}, series = {Angewandte Chemie, International Edition}, journal = {Angewandte Chemie, International Edition}, doi = {10.1002/anie.201902656}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-184874}, year = {2019}, abstract = {The transfer hydrogenation of NHC-supported diborenes with dimethylamine borane proceeds with high selectivity for the trans-1,2-dihydrodiboranes(6). DFT calculations suggest a stepwise proton-first-hydride-second reaction mechanism via an intermediate μ-hydrodiboronium dimethylaminoborate ion pair.}, language = {en} } @unpublished{BraunschweigKrummenacherLichtenbergetal.2016, author = {Braunschweig, Holger and Krummenacher, Ivo and Lichtenberg, Crispin and Mattock, James and Sch{\"a}fer, Marius and Schmidt, Uwe and Schneider, Christoph and Steffenhagen, Thomas and Ullrich, Stefan and Vargas, Alfredo}, title = {Dibora[2]ferrocenophane: A Carbene-Stabilized Diborene in a Strained cis-Configuration}, series = {Angewandte Chemie, International Edition}, journal = {Angewandte Chemie, International Edition}, doi = {10.1002/anie.201609601}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-141981}, pages = {9}, year = {2016}, abstract = {Unsaturated bridges that link the two cyclopentadienyl ligands together in strained ansa metallocenes are rare and limited to carbon-carbon double bonds. The synthesis and isolation of a strained ferrocenophane containing an unsaturated two-boron bridge, isoelectronic with a C=C double bond, was achieved by reduction of a carbene-stabilized 1,1'-bis(dihaloboryl)ferrocene. A combination of spectroscopic and electrochemical measurements as well as density functional theory (DFT) calculations was used to assess the influence of the unprecedented strained cis configuration on the optical and electrochemical properties of the carbene-stabilized diborene unit. Initial reactivity studies show that the dibora[2]ferrocenophane is prone to boron-boron double bond cleavage reactions.}, subject = {Metallocene}, language = {en} }