Borylated Methylenephosphonium Salts: Precursors of Elusive Boryl(phosphino)carbenes
Author(s) -
Florie Lavigne,
Eddy Maerten,
Gilles Alcaraz,
Nathalie SaffonMerceron,
Carles AcostaSilva,
Vicenç Branchadell,
Antoine Baceiredo
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal of the american chemical society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 7.115
H-Index - 612
eISSN - 1520-5126
pISSN - 0002-7863
DOI - 10.1021/ja103422b
Subject(s) - chemistry , carbene , iminium , singlet state , density functional theory , nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy , computational chemistry , organic chemistry , catalysis , physics , nuclear physics , excited state
The synthesis of a new family of boryl-substituted methylenephosphonium derivatives, the phosphorus analogues of iminium salts, has been developed. They were used in the preparation of the first stable boryl(phosphino)carbene, which has been fully characterized by NMR spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography. Density functional theory calculations indicate that these carbenes can be classified as push-pull carbenes with a relatively small singlet-triplet energy gap.
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