TY - JOUR A1 - Riensch, Nicolas Alexander A1 - Swoboda, Lukas A1 - Lik, Artur A1 - Krummenacher, Ivo A1 - Braunschweig, Holger A1 - Helten, Holger T1 - Conjugated Bis(triarylboranes) with Disconnected Conjugation JF - Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie N2 - A series of methylene-bridged bis(triarylboranes) has been synthesized via two complementary routes using metal-free catalytic Si/B exchange condensation under mild conditions. The title compounds comprise two borane moieties that show effective internal π-conjugation involving the respective boron centers and the adjacent hetaryl groups. Conjugation between both borane units, however, is disrupted by the aliphatic linker. Cyclic voltammetry revealed minimal electronic communication between the boron centers, as evidenced by two closely spaced reduction processes. The UV-vis spectra showed bathochromic shifted absorption bands compared to related monoboranes, which is attributed to the methylene bridge. A further red-shift results upon introduction of methyl or SiMe\(_3\) groups at the terminal thiophene rings. KW - Boron KW - thiophene KW - conjugated oligomers KW - hybrid materials KW - boranes Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-258020 VL - 647 IS - 5 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bachmann, Jonas A1 - Helbig, Andreas A1 - Crumbach, Merian A1 - Krummenacher, Ivo A1 - Braunschweig, Holger A1 - Helten, Holger T1 - Fusion of Aza‐ and Oxadiborepins with Furans in a Reversible Ring‐Opening Process Furnishes Versatile Building Blocks for Extended π‐Conjugated Materials JF - Chemistry – A European Journal N2 - A modular synthesis of both difurooxa‐ and difuroazadiborepins from a common precursor is demonstrated. Starting from 2,2′‐bifuran, after protection of the positions 5 and 5’ with bulky silyl groups, formation of the novel polycycles proceeds through opening of the furan rings to a dialkyne and subsequent re‐cyclization in the borylation step. The resulting bifuran‐fused diborepins show pronounced stability, highly planar tricyclic structures, and intense blue light emission. Deprotection and transformation into dibrominated building blocks that can be incorporated into π‐extended materials can be performed in one step. Detailed DFT calculations provide information about the aromaticity of the constituent rings of this polycycle. KW - aromaticity KW - boron KW - BN compounds KW - furan KW - polycycles Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-293926 VL - 28 IS - 63 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Crumbach, Merian A1 - Bachmann, Jonas A1 - Fritze, Lars A1 - Helbig, Andreas A1 - Krummenacher, Ivo A1 - Braunschweig, Holger A1 - Helten, Holger T1 - Dithiophene‐Fused Oxadiborepins and Azadiborepins: A New Class of Highly Fluorescent Heteroaromatics JF - Angewandte Chemie International Edition N2 - Access to dithiophene‐fused oxadiborepins and the first azadiborepins attained via a modular synthesis route are presented. The new compounds emit intense blue light, some of which demonstrate fluorescence quantum yields close to unity. Cyclic voltammetry (CV) revealed electrochemically reversible one‐electron reduction processes. The weak aromatic character of the novel 1,2,7‐azadiborepin ring is demonstrated with in‐depth theoretical investigations using nucleus‐independent chemical shift (NICS) scans and anisotropy of the induced current density (ACID) calculations. KW - aromaticity KW - BN compounds KW - boron KW - isoelectronic analogues KW - polycycles Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-238996 VL - 60 IS - 17 SP - 9290 EP - 9295 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schorr, Fabian A1 - Schopper, Nils A1 - Riensch, Nicolas A1 - Fantuzzi, Felipe A1 - Neder, Marco A1 - Dewhurst, Rian D. A1 - Thiess, Thorsten A1 - Brückner, Tobias A1 - Hammond, Kai A1 - Helten, Holger A1 - Finze, Maik A1 - Braunschweig, Holger T1 - Controlled Synthesis of Oligomers Containing Main-Chain B(sp\(^{2}\))-B(sp\(^{2}\)) Bonds JF - Chemistry—A European Journal N2 - A number of novel alkynyl-functionalized diarylbis(dimethylamino)diboranes(4) are prepared by salt metathesis, and the appended alkynyl groups are subjected to hydroboration. Their reactions with monohydroboranes lead to discrete boryl-appended diborane(4) species, while dihydroboranes induce their catenation to oligomeric species, the first known examples of well-characterized macromolecular species with B−B bonds. The oligomeric species were found to comprise up to ten repeat units and are soluble in common organic solvents. Some of the oligomeric species have good air stability and all were characterized by NMR and vibrational spectroscopy and size-exclusion chromatography techniques. KW - oligomerization KW - boron KW - catenation KW - diborane KW - hydroboration Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-257274 VL - 27 IS - 64 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Auerhammer, Dominic A1 - Arrowsmith, Merle A1 - Braunschweig, Holger A1 - Dewhurst, Rian D. A1 - Jiménez-Halla, J. Oscar C. A1 - Kupfer, Thomas T1 - Nucleophilic addition and substitution at coordinatively saturated boron by facile 1,2-hydrogen shuttling onto a carbene donor JF - Chemical Science N2 - The reaction of [(cAAC\(^{Me}\))BH\(_{3}\)] (cAAC\(^{Me}\) = 1-(2,6-iPr\(_{2}\)C\(_{6}\)H\(_{3}\))-3,3,5,5-tetramethylpyrrolidin-2-ylidene) with a range of organolithium compounds led to the exclusive formation of the corresponding (dihydro)organoborates, Li\(^{+}\)[(cAAC\(^{Me}\)H)BH\(_{2}\)R]− (R = sp\(^{3}\)-, sp\(^{2}\)-, or sp-hybridised organic substituent), by migration of one boron-bound hydrogen atom to the adjacent carbene carbon of the cAAC ligand. A subsequent deprotonation/salt metathesis reaction with Me3SiCl or spontaneous LiH elimination yielded the neutral cAAC-supported mono(organo)boranes, [(cAAC\(^{Me}\)H)BH\(_{2}\)R]− (R]. Similarly the reaction of [cAAC\(^{Me}\))BH\(_{3}\)] with a neutral donor base L resulted in adduct formation by shuttling one boron-bound hydrogen to the cAAC ligand, to generate [(cAAC\(^{Me}\)H)BH\(_{2}\)L], either irreversibly (L = cAAC\(^{Me}\)) or reversibly (L = pyridine). Variable-temperature NMR data and DFT calculations on [(cAAC\(^{Me}\)H)BH\(_{2}\)(cAAC\(^{Me}\))] show that the hydrogen on the former carbene carbon atom exchanges rapidly with the boron-bound hydrides. KW - nucleophilic addition KW - nucleophilic substitution KW - boron-bound hydrogen KW - carbene donor Y1 - 2017 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-170255 VL - 8 IS - 10 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Böhnke, Julian A1 - Brückner, Tobias A1 - Hermann, Alexander A1 - González-Belman, Oscar F. A1 - Arrowsmith, Merle A1 - Jiménez-Halla, J. Oscar C. A1 - Braunschweig, Holger T1 - Single and double activation of acetone by isolobal B≡N and B≡B triple bonds JF - Chemical Science N2 - B≡N and B≡B triple bonds induce C-H activation of acetone to yield a (2-propenyloxy)aminoborane and an unsymmetrical 1-(2- propenyloxy)-2-hydrodiborene, respectively. DFT calculations showed that, despite their stark electronic differences, both the B≡N and B≡B triple bonds activate acetone via a similar coordination-deprotonation mechansim. In contrast, the reaction of acetone with a cAAC-supported diboracumulene yielded a unique 1,2,3-oxadiborole, which according to DFT calculations also proceeds via an unsymmetrical diborene, followed by intramolecular hydride migration and a second C-H activation of the enolate ligand. KW - acetone KW - diborynes KW - iminoboranes KW - boron KW - small-molecule activation Y1 - 2018 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-164286 VL - 9 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Brückner, Tobias A1 - Dewhurst, Rian D. A1 - Dellermann, Theresa A1 - Müller, Marcel A1 - Braunschweig, Holger T1 - Mild synthesis of diboryldiborenes by diboration of B–B triple bonds JF - Chemical Science N2 - A set of diboryldiborenes are prepared by the mild, catalyst-free, room-temperature diboration of the B–B triple bonds of doubly base-stabilized diborynes. Two of the product diboryldiborenes are found to be air- and water-stable in the solid state, an effect that is attributed to their high crystallinity and extreme insolubility in a wide range of solvents. KW - boron KW - diborenes KW - diboration KW - triple bonds KW - diborynes Y1 - 2019 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-186306 VL - 10 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ansell, Melvyn B. A1 - Kostakis, George E. A1 - Braunschweig, Holger A1 - Navarro, Oscar A1 - Spencer, John T1 - Synthesis of functionalized hydrazines: facile homogeneous (N-heterocyclic carbene)-palladium(0)-catalyzed diboration and silaboration of azobenzenes JF - Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis N2 - The bis(N-heterocyclic carbene)(diphenylacetylene)palladium complex Pd(ITMe)\(_2\)(PhCCPh)] (ITMe=1,3,4,5-tetramethylimidazol-2-ylidene) acts as a highly active pre-catalyst in the diboration and silaboration of azobenzenes to synthesize a series of novel functionalized hydrazines. The reactions proceed using commercially available diboranes and silaboranes under mild reaction conditions. KW - Palladium-catalyzed silaboration KW - B-B bond KW - molecular-structure KW - terminal alkynes KW - crystal-structure KW - alkenes KW - complexes KW - mechanism KW - boron KW - design KW - azobenzenes KW - dilaboration KW - N-heterocyclic carbenes KW - palladium KW - silaboration Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-186582 VL - 358 IS - 23 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Braunschweig, Holger A1 - Ewing, William C. A1 - Ghosh, Sundargopal A1 - Kramer, Thomas A1 - Mattock, James D. A1 - Östreicher, Sebastian A1 - Vargas, Alfredo A1 - Werner, Christine T1 - Trimetallaborides as starting points for the syntheses of large metal-rich molecular borides and clusters JF - Chemical Science N2 - Treatment of an anionic dimanganaborylene complex ([{Cp(CO)\(_2\)Mn}\(_2\)B]\(^-\)) with coinage metal cations stabilized by a very weakly coordinating Lewis base (SMe\(_2\)) led to the coordination of the incoming metal and subsequent displacement of dimethylsulfide in the formation of hexametalladiborides featuring planar four-membered M\(_2\)B\(_2\) cores (M = Cu, Au) comparable to transition metal clusters constructed around four-membered rings composed solely of coinage metals. The analogies between compounds consisting of B\(_2\)M\(_2\) units and M\(_4\) (M = Cu, Au) units speak to the often overlooked metalloid nature of boron. Treatment of one of these compounds (M = Cu) with a Lewis-basic metal fragment (Pt(PCy\(_3\))\(_2\)) led to the formation of a tetrametallaboride featuring two manganese, one copper and one platinum atom, all bound to boron in a geometry not yet seen for this kind of compound. Computational examination suggests that this geometry is the result of d\(^{10}\)-d\(^{10}\) dispersion interactions between the copper and platinum fragments. KW - anionic dimetalloborylene complexes KW - trimetallaborides KW - tetrametallaborides KW - Boron KW - metallaboranes KW - crystal structure KW - metal borylene complexes Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-191511 VL - 7 IS - 1 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Braunschweig, Holger A1 - Krummenacher, Ivo A1 - Mailänder, Lisa A1 - Pentecost, Leanne A1 - Vargas, Alfredo T1 - Formation of a stable radical by oxidation of a tetraorganoborate JF - Chemical Communications N2 - Herein, we describe the selective formation of a stable neutral spiroborate radical by one-electron oxidation of the corresponding tetraorganoborate salt Li[B(C\(_4\)Ph\(_4\))\(_2\)], formally containing a tetrahedral borate centre and a s-cis-butadiene radical cation as the spin-bearing site. Spectroscopic and computational methods have been used to determine the spin distribution and the chromism observed in the solid state. KW - tetraorganoborate salt KW - spiroborates KW - one-electron oxidation KW - spin distribution KW - chromism Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-191321 VL - 52 IS - 43 ER -