TY  - JOUR
A1  - Liu, Siyuan
A1  - Légaré, Marc-André
A1  - Seufert, Jens
A1  - Prieschl, Dominic
A1  - Rempel, Anna
A1  - Englert, Lukas
A1  - Dellermann, Theresa
A1  - Paprocki, Valerie
A1  - Stoy, Andreas
A1  - Braunschweig, Holger
T1  - 2,2′-Bipyridyl as a Redox-Active Borylene Abstraction Agent
JF  - Inorganic Chemistry
N2  - 2,2′-Bipyridyl is shown to spontaneously abstract a borylene fragment (R–B:) from various hypovalent boron compounds. This process is a redox reaction in which the bipyridine is reduced and becomes a dianionic substituent bound to boron through its two nitrogen atoms. Various transition metal–borylene complexes and diboranes, as a well as a diborene, take part in this reaction. In the latter case, our results show an intriguing example of the homolytic cleavage of a B═B double bond.
KW  - Borylene
KW  - Heterocycles
KW  - Boron
KW  - Main-group chemistry
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-215595
N1  - This document is the unedited Author’s version of a Submitted Work that was subsequently accepted for publication in Inorganic Chemistry, copyright © American Chemical Society after peer review. To access the final edited and published work see https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c01383.
VL  - 59
IS  - 15
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Brunecker, Carina
A1  - Müssig, Jonas H.
A1  - Arrowsmith, Merle
A1  - Fantuzzi, Felipe
A1  - Stoy, Andreas
A1  - Böhnke, Julian
A1  - Hofmann, Alexander
A1  - Bertermann, Rüdiger
A1  - Engels, Bernd
A1  - Braunschweig, Holger
T1  - Boranediyl‐ and Diborane(4)‐1,2‐diyl‐Bridged Platinum A‐Frame Complexes
JF  - Chemistry – A European Journal
N2  - Diplatinum A‐frame complexes with a bridging (di)boron unit in the apex position were synthesized in a single step by the double oxidative addition of dihalo(di)borane precursors at a bis(diphosphine)‐bridged Pt\(^{0}\)\(_{2}\) complex. While structurally analogous to well‐known μ‐borylene complexes, in which delocalized dative three‐center‐two‐electron M‐B‐M bonding prevails, theoretical investigations into the nature of Pt−B bonding in these A‐frame complexes show them to be rare dimetalla(di)boranes displaying two electron‐sharing Pt−B σ‐bonds. This is experimentally reflected in the low kinetic stability of these compounds, which are prone to loss of the (di)boron bridgehead unit.
KW  - boron
KW  - bonding
KW  - EDA-NOCV
KW  - oxidative addition
KW  - platinum
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-214707
VL  - 26
IS  - 39
SP  - 8518
EP  - 8523
ER  -