TY - JOUR A1 - Braunschweig, Holger A1 - Damme, Alexander T1 - 1,2-Bis(dimethylamino)-1,2-bis(2,4,6-triisopropylphenyl)diborane(4) N2 - In the molecular structure of the title compound, C34H58B2N2, each B atom of the diborane(4) is connected to one dimethylamino group and one Tip ligand (Tip = 2,4,6-triisopropylphenyl). These findings indicate that the increased steric demand of the Tip groups exerts influence solely on the B—B separation but not on the overall geometry of the title compound. KW - Anorganische Chemie Y1 - 2010 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-67639 ER - 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 - Kole, Goutam Kumar A1 - Merz, Julia A1 - Amar, Anissa A1 - Fontaine, Bruno A1 - Boucekkine, Abdou A1 - Nitsch, Jörn A1 - Lorenzen, Sabine A1 - Friedrich, Alexandra A1 - Krummenacher, Ivo A1 - Košćak, Marta A1 - Braunschweig, Holger A1 - Piantanida, Ivo A1 - Halet, Jean-François A1 - Müller-Buschbaum, Klaus A1 - Marder, Todd B. T1 - 2- and 2,7-substituted para-N-methylpyridinium pyrenes: syntheses, molecular and electronic structures, photophysical, electrochemical, and spectroelectrochemical properties and binding to double-stranded (ds) DNA JF - Chemistry - A European Journal N2 - Two N-methylpyridinium compounds and analogous N-protonated salts of 2- and 2,7-substituted 4-pyridyl-pyrene compounds were synthesised and their crystal structures, photophysical properties both in solution and in the solid state, electrochemical and spectroelectrochemical properties were studied. Upon methylation or protonation, the emission maxima are significantly bathochromically shifted compared to the neutral compounds, although the absorption maxima remain almost unchanged. As a result, the cationic compounds show very large apparent Stokes shifts of up to 7200 cm\(^{-1}\). The N-methylpyridinium compounds have a single reduction at ca. −1.5 V vs. Fc/Fc\(^+\) in MeCN. While the reduction process was reversible for the 2,7-disubstituted compound, it was irreversible for the mono-substituted one. Experimental findings are complemented by DFT and TD-DFT calculations. Furthermore, the N-methylpyridinium compounds show strong interactions with calf thymus (ct)-DNA, presumably by intercalation, which paves the way for further applications of these multi-functional compounds as potential DNA-bioactive agents. KW - inorganic chemistry KW - viologens KW - chromophores KW - luminescent KW - pyrenes KW - pyridinium Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-256642 VL - 27 IS - 8 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ewing, William C. A1 - Dellermann, Theresa A1 - Angel Wong, Y. T. A1 - Mattock, James D. A1 - Vargas, Alfredo A1 - Bryce, David L. A1 - Dewhurst, Rian D. A1 - Braunschweig, Holger T1 - \(\pi\)‐Complexes of Diborynes with Main Group Atoms JF - Chemistry – An Asian Journal N2 - We present herein an in‐depth study of complexes in which a molecule containing a boron‐boron triple bond is bound to tellurate cations. The analysis allows the description of these salts as true π complexes between the B−B triple bond and the tellurium center. These complexes thus extend the well‐known Dewar‐Chatt‐Duncanson model of bonding to compounds made up solely of p block elements. Structural, spectroscopic and computational evidence is offered to argue that a set of recently reported heterocycles consisting of phenyltellurium cations complexed to diborynes bear all the hallmarks of \(\pi\)‐complexes in the \(\pi\)‐complex/metallacycle continuum envisioned by Joseph Chatt. Described as such, these compounds are unique in representing the extreme of a metal‐free continuum with conventional unsaturated three‐membered rings (cyclopropenes, azirenes, borirenes) occupying the opposite end. KW - boron KW - main group elements KW - solid-state NMR KW - \(\pi\) interactions KW - multiple bonds Y1 - 2020 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-214677 VL - 15 IS - 10 SP - 1553 EP - 1557 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Goettel, James T. A1 - Gao, Haopeng A1 - Dotzauer, Simon A1 - Braunschweig, Holger T1 - \(^{Me}\)CAAC=N\(^{-}\): A Cyclic (Alkyl)(Amino)Carbene Imino Ligand JF - Chemistry – A European Journal N2 - A cyclic (alkyl)(amino)carbene (CAAC) has been shown to react with a covalent azide similar to the Staudinger reaction. The reaction of \(^{Me}\)CAAC with trimethylsilyl azide afforded the N‐silylated 2‐iminopyrrolidine (\(^{Me}\)CAAC=NSiMe\(_{3}\)), which was fully characterized. This compound undergoes hydrolysis to afford the 2‐iminopyrrolidine and trimethylsiloxane which co‐crystallize as a hydrogen‐bonded adduct. The N‐silylated 2‐iminopyrrolidine was used to transfer the novel pyrrolidine‐2‐iminato ligand onto both main‐group and transition‐metal centers. The reaction of the tetrabromodiborane bis(dimethyl sulfide) adduct with two equivalents of \(^{Me}\)CAAC=NSiMe\(_{3}\) afforded the disubstituted diborane. The reaction of \(^{Me}\)CAAC=NSiMe\(_{3}\) with TiCl\(_{4}\) and CpTiCl\(_{3}\) afforded \(^{Me}\)CAAC=NTiCl\(_{3}\) and \(^{Me}\)CAAC=NTiCl\(_{2}\)Cp, respectively. KW - boron KW - carbenes KW - imide ligands KW - nitrogen ligands KW - titanium Y1 - 2020 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-212662 VL - 26 IS - 5 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Czernetzki, Corinna A1 - Arrowsmith, Merle A1 - Fantuzzi, Felipe A1 - Gärtner, Annalena A1 - Tröster, Tobias A1 - Krummenacher, Ivo A1 - Schorr, Fabian A1 - Braunschweig, Holger T1 - A neutral beryllium(I) radical JF - Angewandte Chemie International Edition N2 - The reduction of a cyclic alkyl(amino)carbene (CAAC)-stabilized organoberyllium chloride yields the first neutral beryllium radical, which was characterized by EPR, IR, UV/Vis spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography. DFT calculations show significant spin density at beryllium and confirm donor–acceptor bonding between an alkylberyllium radical fragment and a neutral CAAC ligand. KW - inorganic chemistry KW - X-ray crystallography KW - Beryllium KW - cyclic alkyl(amino)carbene KW - EDA-NOCV KW - radical Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-256529 VL - 60 IS - 38 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Härterich, Marcel A1 - Matler, Alexander A1 - Dewhurst, Rian D. A1 - Sachs, Andreas A1 - Oppel, Kai A1 - Stoy, Andreas A1 - Braunschweig, Holger T1 - A step-for-step main-group replica of the Fischer carbene synthesis at a borylene carbonyl JF - Nature Communications N2 - The Fischer carbene synthesis, involving the conversion of a transition metal (TM)-bound CO ligand to a carbene ligand of the form [=C(OR’)R] (R, R’ = organyl groups), is one of the seminal reactions in the history of organometallic chemistry. Carbonyl complexes of p-block elements, of the form [E(CO)n] (E = main-group fragment), are much less abundant than their TM cousins; this scarcity and the general instability of low-valent p-block species means that replicating the historical reactions of TM carbonyls is often very difficult. Here we present a step-for-step replica of the Fischer carbene synthesis at a borylene carbonyl involving nucleophilic attack at the carbonyl carbon followed by electrophilic quenching at the resultant acylate oxygen atom. These reactions provide borylene acylates and alkoxy-/silyloxy-substituted alkylideneboranes, main-group analogues of the archetypal transition metal acylate and Fischer carbene families, respectively. When either the incoming electrophile or the boron center has a modest steric profile, the electrophile instead attacks at the boron atom, leading to carbene-stabilized acylboranes – boron analogues of the well-known transition metal acyl complexes. These results constitute faithful main-group replicas of a number of historical organometallic processes and pave the way to further advances in the field of main-group metallomimetics. KW - chemical bonding KW - ligands Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-357270 VL - 14 ER - TY - INPR A1 - Böhnke, Julian A1 - Arrowsmith, Merle A1 - Braunschweig, Holger T1 - Activation of a Zerovalent Diboron Compound by Desymmetrization T2 - Journal of the American Chemical Society N2 - The desymmetrization of the cyclic (alkyl)(amino)carbene-supported diboracumulene, B\(_2\)(cAAC\(^{Me}\))\(_2\) (cAAC\(^{Me}\) = 1- (2,6-diisopropylphenyl)-3,3,5,5-tetramethylpyrrolidin-2-ylidene) by mono-adduct formation with IMe\(^{Me}\) (1,3-dimethylimidazol-2-ylidene) yields the zerovalent sp-sp\(^2\) diboron compound B\(_2\)(cAAC\(^{Me}\))\(_2\)(IMe\(^{Me}\)), which provides a versatile platform for the synthesis of novel symmetrical and unsymmetrical zerovalent sp\(^2\)-sp\(^2\) diboron compounds by adduct formation with IMe\(^{Me}\) and CO, respectively. Furthermore, B\(_2\)(cAAC\(^{Me}\))\(_2\)(IMe\(^{Me}\)) displays enhanced reactivity compared to its symmetrical precursor, undergoing spontaneous intramolecular C-H activation and facile twofold hydrogenation, the latter resulting in B-B bond cleavage and the formation of the mixed-base parent borylene, (cAAC\(^{Me}\))(IMe\(^{Me}\))BH. KW - diboryne KW - boron KW - carbenes KW - low-valent main group chemistry KW - erovalent diboron compounds KW - desymmetrization KW - bond activation KW - hydrogenation KW - borylene Y1 - 2018 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-167983 N1 - This document is the unedited Author’s version of a Submitted Work that was subsequently accepted for publication in Journal of the American Chemical Society, copyright © American Chemical Society after peer review. To access the final edited and published work see https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.8b06930 (Julian Böhnke, Merle Arrowsmith, and Holger Braunschweig: Reactivity Enhancement of a Zerovalent Diboron Compound by Desymmetrization, Journal of the American Chemical Society 2018, 140, (32), 10368-10373. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b06930) ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hagspiel, Stephan A1 - Fantuzzi, Felipe A1 - Dewhurst, Rian D. A1 - Gärtner, Annalena A1 - Lindl, Felix A1 - Lamprecht, Anna A1 - Braunschweig, Holger T1 - Adducts of the parent boraphosphaketene H\(_2\)BPCO and their decarbonylative insertion chemistry JF - Angewandte Chemie International Edition N2 - The first examples of Lewis base adducts of the parent boraphosphaketene (H\(_2\)B-PCO) and their cyclodimers are prepared. One of these adducts is shown to undergo mild decarbonylation and phosphinidene insertion into a B−C bond of a borole, forming very rare examples of 1,2-phosphaborinines, B/P isosteres of benzene. The strong donor properties of these 1,2-phosphaborinines are confirmed by the synthesis of their π complexes with the Group 6 metals. KW - inorganic chemistry KW - phosphorus KW - boron KW - decarbonylation KW - heterocycles KW - ketenes Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-256470 VL - 60 IS - 24 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hagspiel, Stephan A1 - Fantuzzi, Felipe A1 - Dewhurst, Rian D. A1 - Gärtner, Annalena A1 - Lindl, Felix A1 - Lamprecht, Anna A1 - Braunschweig, Holger T1 - Addukte des Stammboraphosphaketens H\(_{2}\)BPCO und deren Insertionsreaktionen mittels Decarbonylierung JF - Angewandte Chemie N2 - Die ersten Beispiele für Lewis-Basen-Addukte des Stammboraphosphaketens H\(_{2}\)B-PCO und ihre cyclischen Dimere wurden hergestellt. Eines dieser Addukte zeigt unter milden Bedingungen eine Decarbonylierung und anschließende Insertion des Phosphinidens in die B-C-Bindung eines Borols, was in der Bildung sehr seltener Beispiele für 1,2-Phosphaborinine, B,P-Isostere von Benzol, resultiert. Die starken Donoreigenschaften dieser 1,2-Phosphaborinine wurden durch die Synthese ihrer π-Komplexe mit Metallen der Gruppe 6 bestätigt. KW - Bor KW - Decarbonylierung KW - Heterocyclen KW - Ketene KW - Phosphor Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-244803 VL - 133 IS - 24 SP - 13780 EP - 13784 ER -