TY  - INPR
A1  - Stennett, Tom
A1  - Mattock, James
A1  - Pentecost, Leanne
A1  - Vargas, Alfredo
A1  - Braunschweig, Holger
T1  - Chelated Diborenes and their Inverse-Electron-Demand Diels- Alder Reactions with Dienes
T2  - Angewandte Chemie, International Edition
N2  - A doubly base-stabilized diborane based on a benzylphosphine linker was prepared by a salt elimination reaction between 2-LiC\(_6\)H\(_4\)CH\(_2\)PCy\(_2\).Et\(_2\)O and B\(_2\)Br\(_4\). This compound was reduced with KC8 to its corresponding diborene, with the benzylphosphine forming a five-membered chelate. The diborene reacts with butadiene, 2-trimethylsiloxy-1,3-butadiene and isoprene to form 4,5-diboracyclohexenes, which interconvert between their 1,1- (geminal) and 1,2- (vicinal) chelated isomers. The 1,1-chelated diborene undergoes a halide-catalysed isomerisation into its thermodynamically favoured 1,2-isomer, which undergoes Diels-Alder reactions more slowly than the kinetic product.
KW  - boron
KW  - cycloaddition
KW  - DFT calculations
KW  - chelates
KW  - low-valent compounds
Y1  - 2018
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-178268
N1  - This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article: T. E. Stennett, J. D. Mattock, L. Pentecost, A. Vargas, H. Braunschweig, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 15276., which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201809217. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.
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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  -